- 328 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About This Book
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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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Halftitle Page
- Copyright Page
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Part One: Wasnât I Once Also a Daughter?
- Part Two: The Almond Giver
- Part Three: The Survivor
- Epilogue