13 May, 2025 - Unpacking the Overshare isn’t just a memoir. It’s an aftermath. A daughter’s reckoning with the private, complicated legacy her mother left behind, not in heirlooms or letters, but in stories too honest to be told during her lifetime.
Written by Dawn Banksy, Unpacking the Overshare is a bold, precise, and deeply personal response to her mother Beth’s final writings. In the last months of her life, Beth began to unravel the truths she had kept buried for decades, about womanhood, sexuality, motherhood, faith, marriage, and the painful silence that often accompanies a life of performance. What Dawn discovered was not a clean narrative, but a raw, startling archive of everything her mother never got to say out loud.
This isn’t a tribute. It’s a daughter holding up what her mother left behind and asking: what do I do with this?
Beth’s writing, now woven into the pages of Unpacking the Overshare, is unfiltered and often uncomfortable. She writes about the body with frankness. She writes about parenting with confession. She writes about love without illusions. What emerges is a portrait of a woman who lived her life holding everything in, and then, at the end, let it all out.
Dawn doesn’t clean it up. She doesn’t make it prettier than it was. Her role here isn’t to soften her mother’s voice. It’s to give it space. And in doing so, she starts a parallel journey: one of her own grief, anger, clarity, and self-understanding. What makes Unpacking the Overshare remarkable is that it never becomes about blame. It’s about complexity. Dawn writes not as a daughter trying to defend or condemn, but as a woman standing in the messy middle. The book moves between Beth’s final reflections and Dawn’s present-day responses with grace and precision, two voices in conversation, decades apart, finally meeting in the truth.
This is not a comfortable read. It’s not supposed to be. But it’s deeply necessary. For anyone who has grown up in silence. For anyone raised in the shadow of emotional performance. For daughters who loved their mothers fiercely but also carry the weight of what went unsaid. Unpacking the Overshare offers no easy answers. Just an invitation: to stop performing, and start telling the truth.
The brilliance of this book lies in its refusal to resolve the tension. Dawn doesn’t pretend to have healed from everything. She doesn’t wrap Beth’s life in tidy conclusions. Instead, she lets the mess stand, and in doing so, offers something far more powerful than closure: a witness.
About the Author
Dawn Banksy is a writer, mother, and realtor who has spent much of her life learning how to live on her own terms. Her previous work, The Realtor, explored survival and self-definition after a childhood shaped by religious control and silence. Unpacking the Overshare is her most personal and courageous book yet.
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