Nine Lives

<p>In this tell-all memoir a woman in her eighties born during the Great Depression to Jewish immigrants unveils her intimate self-transformations in the course of nine decades. Determined at an early age to prove herself a free spirit in a male dominated world as a young adult Kahane went on the road hitchhiking her way into and out of risky adventures and romantic affairs ceaselessly chasing new experience. But what started out as a road book takes a different turn in midlife when influenced by the insights of psychoanalysis and feminism she became a feminist professor mother and wife. In later life her story changed tracks again when a visit to Auschwitz compelled her to confront her own family history of loss and renewal. The memoir ends with a surprising new twist that opens to a hopeful future. In this long and hard-earned coming-of-age story readers will find a piece of themselves.</p>