num_pages: 272
description: Gerda Stein is a brilliant, successful civil liberties lawyer in New York, a champion of the oppressed, an exacting, rational woman who never repeats her mistakes. But she can't erase her prodigal daughter, Renata, who has returned after an eight year abscence, unwed, with a child in tow , hoping to make peace.Renata is aimless, sensual, irrational, yet she too has principles, as fleshy and real as her mother's are physical and abstract. As a mother and daughter warily circle each other, looking for what neither can give, the child stands between them, a second chance - and for each, the ultimate revenge.
language: English
title: The Autobiography of My Mother
titlecomplete: The Autobiography of My Mother
ratings_count: 14
awards: awardedAt: 189331200000
name: Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award
category: Fiction
publisher: Doubleday