In this deeply etched and haunting memoir, Vivian Gornick tells the story of her lifelong battle with her mother for independence.
Born and raised in the Bronx, the daughter.
Gornick\'s groundbreaking book confronts what Edna O\'Brien has called "the prinicpal crux of female despair": the unacknowledged Oedipal nature of the mother-daughter bond.
There have been numerous books about mother and daughter, but none has dealt with this closest of filial relations as directly or as ruthlessly.
In this deeply etched and haunting memoir, Vivian Gornick tells the story of her lifelong battle with her mother for independence