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  <title><![CDATA[In My Mother's House: A Memoir]]></title>
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  <default_description>In this twentieth anniversary edition of the feminist classic In My Mother's House, Kim Chernin tells the brave and ultimately triumphant story of Rose Chernin, Russian immigrant and passionate Old Left activist, and her daughter Kim, the narrator of this riveting memoir of conflict, confrontation, and reconciliation among four generations of Chernin women.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1983</original_publication_year>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoyed this book. The book is about women in 4 generations (great-grandmother, grandmother, mother, and daughter). The grandmother was an active Communist during the McCarthy era. The great-grandmother and grandmother immigrated to the U.S. from Russia. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Loved this book. I love most books with connections between the generations. Interesting look at communism and socialism and the differences between an ideal and what it becomes as a reality. Lots to relate to with balancing life work with being a mother.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The story of Kim Chernin's mother, a Russian Jewish immigrant, who came to America and worked as a Communist organizer. ]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Without a doubt, this is one of the best books I have ever read. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[it was really interesting book, nicely woven together, about the lives of grandmother, mother, and author. i think my problem with it was that i never quite clicked with the two main voices . . . but if you're interested in memoir, mother/daughter relationships, communists in America and the McCarth...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3304267">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Engaging tale reflecting on the lives of the amazing women in the Chernin family. Rose, the tireless communist organizer, her mother, who had immigrated from a Russian shtetl, as well as the author and her daughter.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really loved this book when I read it, carried it around with me for a while.  I'll have to read it again so I can't remember why...]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of the best memoirs I hae ever read.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A memoir<br/>]]></body>
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