Overview

• E. A. Hanks published The 10: A Memoir of Family and the Open Road on April 8, reflecting on years split between her mother’s home in Sacramento and visits with her father.
• In her memoir, she describes emotional and physical violence by her mother, including hair-pulling, confinement in a closet and threats from imagined intruders.
• She believes her mother, Samantha Lewes, suffered undiagnosed bipolar disorder marked by episodes of extreme paranoia and delusion that fueled household instability.
• At age 14, after a severe escalation of abuse, E. A. Hanks moved to Los Angeles to live full time with her father, Tom Hanks, and stepmother Rita Wilson.
• On June 4 at the red carpet premiere of The Phoenician Scheme, Tom Hanks said he wasn’t surprised by his daughter’s courage and praised her honesty in examining her past.