Fierce attachments
About this book
Vivian Gornick's brave and deeply moving memoir is a tour de force, a book that dissects one of life's most complex, maddening and closely entwined alliances - the relationship between mother and daughter. Heralded as a landmark in American autobiography, *Fierce Attachments* probes the intimate, sometimes destructive family passions that can shape a woman's childhood - and change her life forever.
Subjects
- biographies
- biography
- bronx (new york, n.y.)
- case studies
- daughters
- études de cas
- famille
- femmes
- fiction, general
- filles
- jews
- jews, biography
- juives
- mères et filles
- mothers and daughters
- new york (n.y.), biography
- récits personnels
- women authors
- women, biography