Overview

• E. A. Hanks published The 10: A Memoir of Family and the Open Road on April 8, detailing her experiences growing up between Tom Hanks and Samantha Lewes.
• At the June 4 red carpet premiere of The Phoenician Scheme, Tom Hanks told Access Hollywood he was unsurprised by his daughter’s willingness to examine painful family history.
• The memoir describes episodes of emotional and physical violence by Samantha Lewes, whom E. A. believes struggled with undiagnosed bipolar disorder.
• After her parents’ 1987 divorce, E. A. split her childhood between Los Angeles and Sacramento and later undertook a six-month road trip to understand her mother’s past.
• Samantha Lewes died of bone cancer in 2002 and Tom Hanks married Rita Wilson in 1988, whom E. A. refers to as her other mother.