In My Mother's House: A Daughter's Story
by Kim Chernin
2021-01-05 17:32:25
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 ...
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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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