Fierce attachments

By Vivian Gornick

Subjects: Women authors, New york (n.y.), biography, Biography, Case studies, Fiction, general, Bronx (new york, n.y.), Daughters, Jews, Mothers and daughters

Description: 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.