num_pages: 272
description: In My Mother's House is a beautiful, haunting, and expertly told novel about a daughter's obsession to understand her mother's commitment to silence about their family's experiences during WWII Vienna. The story of Elizabeth and her mother Jenny is remarkable for its fullness of the pieces of family silver the grandmother mails to Jenny, piece by piece, over the years; Jenny's vivid memories of her uncle's viola d'amore lessons; the smell of the wood floors in the family's Vienna home. It's an emotional story of what is inherited from one generation to the next.
language: English
title: In My Mother's House
titlecomplete: In My Mother's House
genres: Fiction, Holocaust, World War II, War, Adult Fiction, Jewish
ratings_count: 109
awards: awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Society of Midland Authors Award
category: Adult Fiction
publisher: Picador