In My Mother's House: A Daughter's Story

by Kim Chernin

2021-01-05 17:32:25

In My Mother''s House depicts a profound, intergenerational struggle between a powerful, politically engaged mother, Rose, and her spiritually inclined poet and writer daughter, Kim. Framing this collision are two other generations. There is Rose''s ... Read more
In My Mother''s House depicts a profound, intergenerational struggle between a powerful, politically engaged mother, Rose, and her spiritually inclined poet and writer daughter, Kim. Framing this collision are two other generations. There is Rose''s mother from the shtetl, a broken woman regularly beaten by her husband but the source of the family''s stories. And Kim''s daughter, a second-generation, fully assimilated girl of eight at the time the book begins. Four generations, from the shtetl to an affluent intellectual household in Berkeley, California, the story is a historical record and reckoning between the old activist left and a beginning feminist movement. The double narrative allows Kim to explore the evolving relationship between mother and daughter, who, through their storytelling, are brought to a profound understanding and reconciliation.
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File size9 X 6 X 0.68 in
Print pages328
PublisherPurdue University Press
Publication date October 15, 2019
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9781557538710

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