In My Mother's House - Kim Chernin

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In My Mother's House, Kim Chernin, 1983, United States, BIOGRAPHY

"In My Mother's House is more than a story about four generations of women; more than a documentation of communism, socialist idealism, and its subsequent disillusionment; more than proof of the existence of women who have struggled to fight for what they believed in with bravery and persistence...Her powerful and persistent mother persuades her, however, and with relaxed sentences that drift into stories of the past, Kim Chernin skillfully, colorfully, and with great affection brings us into the culture of Russian Jews..."

(G.B., p. 200)