In My Mother's House: A Daughter's Story

by Kim Chernin

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1557538719
• ISBN13: 9781557538710
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Purdue University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"