A good enough daughter
Subtitle: a memoir
By: Alix Kates Shulman.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Schocken Books; Distributed by Pantheon Books
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
Subjects: Shulman, Alix Kates; Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography; Aging parents -- United States -- Family relationships
Description: At twenty, Alix Kates Shulman wrenched herself from her middle-class family and staked a claim to a fierce independence. In this unflinching but tender memoir, she explores what it means to do what is expected of a daughter - discovering in the process the unexpected, complicated joys of going home.

A Good Enough Daughter is the story of Schulman's difficult journey from dependency to alienation to reconciliation, as she returns home to care for her aging parents in the last years of their lives. The intersection of her own memory with family documents discovered in her parents' house provides the structure for this riveting exploration of her life as a daughter.