Riding fury home : a memoir

Wilson, Chana, 1951-

Book 2012

Explores the relationship between the author and her mother, who spent time in a mental institution after attempting to commit suicide in 1958 as a result of the mental anguish over a love affair with another woman.

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Lesbians United States Biography

Mothers and daughters United States History

Wilson, Chana, 1951-

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ISBN:

9781580054324 (pbk.)

Description:

377 p. ; 21 cm

Contents:

Millstone, New Jersey
White Plains
Before she left
Carrier clinic
University Heights
Millstone
School days
Atlantic city
Bellyache
Life with dad
Sweetie
Mom returns
Alone with mom
Barbie
Undertow
Overdose
Riding fury home
Happy
Return
Perry mason
Crossing the demilitarized zone
Hayride
Leaving millstone
Englewood
Identity house
Iowa nights
Great divide
Freedom school
By the bay
Older women's liberation
FBI
Icebox canyon
Fire escape
The village
Immigrants
Mother courage
Unlearning to not speak
Woman share
Identity house
Promised land
T-bone
Wilderness
Leaving Clarke street
Sinai
Rheumatoid
Diagnosis
Intensive care
Halcion Daze
Spreading
Devil's slide
Hospice
Submarine
Sinai
Shiva
Thermals

LCCN:

2011043773

Control Number:

856972

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