Research Catalog

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"--

Subjects

• Communists
• Mothers and daughters
• Mothers and daughters > United States
• Chernin, Rose
• United States
• Chernin, Kim
• Communists > United States > Biography
• Biographies

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