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| In My Mother''s House
ISBN: 9781612495996
Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / Purdue University Press
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters
Subjects: Mothers and daughters; Communists;
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.
Kim Chernin, PhD, has won acclaim for her numerous works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, including A Different Kind of Listening, My Life as a Boy, T he Obsession, In My Mother's House (nominated for Chronicle Critics Award and chosen as Alice Walker's Favorite Book of the Year in the New York Times , 1983), The Flame Bearers ( New York Times Notable Book, 1986), and the national best seller The Hungry Self. She lives in Point Reyes,California, with her life-companion, Renate Stendhal, and their two dogs, Buckleand Teddy. She is a nationally recognized expert in eating disorders and also is in private practice.
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