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In my mother's house : a daughter's story
- Title
- In my mother's house : a daughter's story / Kim Chernin.
- Author
- Chernin, Kim
- Publication
- West Lafayette : Purdue University Press, [2019]
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Details
- Description
- xv, 310 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "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"--
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biographies.
- Note
- Originally published: New Haven : Ticknor & Fields, 1983 ; San Francisco: MacAdam/Cage, 2003.
- Contents
- The proposal -- The first story my mother tells -- Childhood in Russia (1903-1914) -- Oy, my enlightenment -- The second story my mother tells -- Do this for me, Rose -- The third story my mother tells -- A larger world (1920-1928) -- Three sisters -- The fourth story my mother tells -- I fight for my mother (1928-1932) -- Wasn't I once also a daughter? -- She comes to visit -- The fifth story my mother tells -- Motherland (1932-1934) -- A walk in the woods -- The sixth story my mother tells -- The organizer (1934-1938) -- The rose garden -- The seventh story my mother tells -- Letters (1938-1940) -- The almond giver -- The eighth story my mother tells -- A birth and a death (1940-1946) -- 414 East 204th Street -- The crossroads -- The first story I tell -- Hard times (1947-1952) -- Take a giant step -- The second story I tell -- A communist childhood (1952-1957) -- A knock at the door -- The third story I tell -- Motherland revisited (1957-1967) -- What remains.
- Call Number
- JFE 20-3435
- ISBN
- 9781557538710
- 1557538719
- 9781612495996 (canceled/invalid)
- 9781612495989 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2019026237
- OCLC
- 1085173731
- Author
- Chernin, Kim, author.
- Title
- In my mother's house : a daughter's story / Kim Chernin.
- Publisher
- West Lafayette : Purdue University Press, [2019]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Other Form:
- Online version: Chernin, Kim. In my mother's house. West Lafayette : Purdue University Press, [2019]. 9781612495996 (DLC) 2019026238
- Research Call Number
- JFE 20-3435