Title: Inventing Memory
First published: 1997
Description: First published in 1997, Inventing Memory is about four generations of remarkable women from a Jewish-American family-their triumphs, tragedies, scandals, and love affairs-as related by Sara Solomon, the youngest of these women. While trying to chronicle their history, the story becomes essentially hers, as she comes to understand the nature of memory, the way all of us both invent and assimilate our ancestors. In learning about the women in her family, Sara discovers how to create her own future.
Subjects: Fiction, Jewish women, Literature, Mothers and daughters, History, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, general, Mothers and daughters, fiction, Domestic fiction