My Mother's Wars

Lillian Faderman is an extraordinary storyteller, one of the few who can tell a painful story, with a complex ending--and imbue it with humor, sensuality and earthy grace, in every sentence. --Amy Bloom, author of Away<br><br> This book is a work of originality, written with such imaginative sympathy that I read it with unabating pleasure from beginning to end. <br> -- Vivian Gornick, author of Fierce Attachments<br><br> This is an exquisite piece of history--both resonantly personal and full of revelatory moments in the history of women, and of New York in the early days of the garment workers union and the shadow of the Holocaust. The sympathy and understanding Faderman shows for her immigrant mother, and her whole family, reminded me again of what I love about memoir. This is not just a story; these are lives on the page. <br>-- Dorothy Allison<br><br> Faderman's story of her immigrant mother is so vividly imagined that you can taste the borscht Mary eats, squirm at the claustrophobia of her tiny rented room, and be swept up in the sensual delight that will betray her. <br> --Janice Steinberg, the author of The Tin Horse<br> <br> My Mother's Wars tells the aching story of immigrant factory workers in the decades preceding World War II -- sad lives made sadder by the terrified knowledge that their families in Europe are being extinguished. The book is part memoir, part reconstruction ... and all artistry. --Edith Pearlman, author of Binocular Vision <br> <br>