In My Father's Garden: A Daughter's Search for a Spiritual Life

by Kim Chernin

Book Overview

Kim Chernin's mother was a leftist firebrand, an American Marxist at mid-century, when it was dangerous to be one. Her father, a quiet man, was no less radical. Why then, decades later, does their daughter--a liberal California psychoanalyst and writer--find herself drawn toward a spirituality that would have shocked her parents? Through three personal stories, Chernin tackles the questions that pull at all of us: how to make sense in a world whose...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1565121007
• ISBN13: 9781565121003
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Algonquin Books
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.3" x 7.3"