In My Father's Garden

Kim Chernin''s mother was a leftist firebrand an American Marxist at mid-century when it was dangerous to be one. Her father a quiet man was no less radical. Why then decades later does their daughter--a liberal California psychoanalyst and writer--find herself drawn toward a spirituality that would have shocked her parents? Through three personal stories Chernin tackles the questions that pull at all of us: how to make sense in a world whose order isn''t always apparent and how to find balance between the mind and the spirit. Kim Chernin writes with immediacy and intimacy.--City Life London.