Rosie Hoole "Beautiful, fierce, radical loving memoir mapping a patch of ground and a personal transformation".
From her memoir, "Fierce Attachments": The shabby tenement streets below our windows were transformed by darkness and silence.
Lerman is one of three authors who redeem the experiment for Rose, making it onto her "inner shelf," alongside dozens of other titles, including "Middlemarch," "Pale Fire," and Vivian Gornick's memoir "Fierce Attachments".
She is the author of many books, including "The End of the Novel of Love," a National Book Critic's Circle Award finalist, "Fierce Attachments: A Memoir," and "The Men in My Life".
In many ways, Hampl's emotional range brings to mind Vivian Gornick's classic memoir, "Fierce Attachments," particularly its unsentimental portrayal of the contradictory feelings a daughter harbors for her mother.
In her 1987 memoir, "Fierce Attachments," she recalls life in the Bronx tenement apartment building where she grew up, the connection her mother felt each time she opened the window onto the alley, where women were calling to each other, "the sound of their voices mixed with the smell of clothes drying in the sun".
Gallagher's near contemporary and near neighbor Vivian Gornick probed this question in the beautiful memoir "Fierce Attachments," a book about a woman who is perpetually explaining to her mother all the ways in which things are better now for women, then bursting into tears.
Gigi (marketing and merchandising coordinator) recommends: "Lidia Yuknavitch's memoir is fierce and voluptuous.
In "Fierce Attachments," her 1987 memoir, and now with "The Odd Woman and the City," framed as a kind of sequel to that book, Gornick gives voice to the conundrum awaiting newcomers to the wilds of self-discovery: there is no feminist who is a stranger to herself.
Last week, Daunt Books republished Fierce Attachments, Vivian Gornick's 1987 memoir about her difficult relationship with her mother.
