Knowles

Tina Knowles, best known as �����DzԳ�é and Solange’s mother, gets candid in her memoir, writing about being diagnosed with breast cancer last summer and being subjected to an unwanted, invasive gynecological exam as a teenager.

By Tina Knowles One World: 432 pages, $35 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores.

Tina Knowles is a matriarch above all else.

As a working mom as well as a mother figure to �����DzԳ�é’s bandmate Kelly Rowland and niece Angie Beyincé, Knowles persevered to open a hair salon for professional Black women in Houston.

Knowles debunks her reputation as a stage mom, though she carried on her matrilineal penchant for designing and sewing clothes, as the stylist for Destiny’s Child.