Not Becoming My Mother

✍ Scribed by Reichl, Ruth

• Publisher: Penguin USA, Inc.
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 62 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781101046388

✦ Synopsis

In Not Becoming My Mother, bestselling author Ruth Reichl embarks on a clear-eyed, openhearted investigation of her mothers life, piecing together the journey of a woman she comes to realize she never really knew. Looking to her mothers letters and diaries, Reichl confronts the painful transition her mother made from a hopeful young woman to an increasingly unhappy older one and realizes the tremendous sacrifices she made to make sure her daughters life would not be as disappointing as her own. Growing up in Cleveland, Miriam Brudno dreamed of becoming a doctor, like her father. But when she announced this, her parents said, Youre no beauty, and its too bad youre such an intellectual. But if you become a doctor, no man will ever marry you. Instead, at twenty, Miriam opened a bookstore, a profession everyone agreed was suitably ladylike. She corresponded with authors all over the world, including philosophers such as Bertrand Russell, political figures such as Max Eastman, and...