Rich and moving New York TimesA book that expands and breaks your heart Adelle Waldman, author of The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P.A revelatory enquiry into selfhood, freedom, mortality, storytelling, and what it means to be a mothers daughterDuring one of the texting sessions that became our habit over the period I now think of as both late and early in our relationship, my mother revealed the existence of someone named Janis Jerome.So begins Michelle Oranges extraordinary inquiry into the meaning of maternal legacy in her own family and across a century of seismic change. Jerome, she learns, is one of her mothers many alter egos the name used in a case study, eventually sold to the Harvard Business Review, about her midlife choice to leave her husband and children to pursue career opportunities in a bigger city. A flashpoint in the lives of both mother and daughter, the decision forms the heart of a broader exploration of the impact of feminism on what Adrienne Rich called the great unwritten story that of the motherdaughter bond.Through a blend of memoir, social history, and cultural criticism, Pure Flame pursues a chain of personal, intellectual, and collective inheritance, tracing the forces that helped transform the world and what a woman might expect from it.

Binding: Hardback;288 pages; Publisher: Vintage Publishing; Classification: BM; Weight: 562 g; Dimensions: 147 x 223 x 32

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