Kim Chernin 
In My Mother’s House [EPUB ebook] 
A Daughter’s Story

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.

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Foreword

Acknowledgments

Part One: Wasn’t I Once Also a Daughter?

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?

Part Two: The Almond Giver

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)

Part Three: The Survivor

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

Epilogue

O autorze

Kim Chernin, Ph D, 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, Buckle and Teddy. She is a nationally recognized expert in eating disorders and also is in private practice.