In My Mother's House

<div><i>In My Mother's House</i> 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.</div>