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Pure Flame - On Mothers and Daughters (Hardcover)
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Pure Flame - On Mothers and Daughters (Hardcover)
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List price R438
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You Save R38 (9%)
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'Rich and moving' New York Times 'A 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 mother's daughter During
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 Orange's 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 mother's 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 mother-daughter 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.
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