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Authors: Faye Moskowitz
ISBN-13: 9780807036150, ISBN-10: 0807036153
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Beacon
Date Published: September 1995
Edition: New Edition

Author Biography: Faye Moskowitz

Book Synopsis

A beautiful exploration of the difficult and affirming relationship between mothers and their daughters in the lives of Jewish women.

Belle Lettres

Amazing...Her Face in the Mirror talks to us with the combined voices of many wise daughters and mothers who are trying to make sense of the mystery of their exquisite bond.

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction
	Brit Kedusha	3
	Borrowing the Knot	4
	Poker	5
	Lines of Work	7
	Matrushka Dolls	12
	Happy Birthday	14
	Survivor	17
	There Was My Very Scary Mad Period	19
	Family Feelings	21
	Old Pros	24
	Our Wounded	31
	Lovingkindness	33
	Only a Phase	37
	The Bad Mother	49
	The Dress	52
	Selfish	56
	Plastic Flowers	57
	On Rockawalkin Road	68
	Listening to Myself on My Daughter's Message Machine	73
	Plumbing	75
	In My Mother's House: Epilogue	76
	Surviving	89
	Pocahontas in Camelot	91
	Poland, 1944: My Mother Is Walking down a Road	105
	Garden	108
	Belonging	110
	Fruit Cellar	112
	No Returns	114
	A Life	125
	Burglars in the Flesh	126
	The Daughter of Survivors	142
	Pantoum for the Children, So They Will Know Yiddish	144
	The Fish	149
	Birthing	150
	Gifts	158
	The Thousand Islands	165
	Talking Back	171
	Fierce Attachments	172
	What Good Is a Smart Girl?	178
	Tropical Aunts	183
	The Different Landscape	195
	Looking for Tamerlane	203
	To a Daughter Leaving Home	215
	L'Dor v Dor: From Generation to Generation	216
	Mother, I Hardly Knew You	221
	Second Person	238
	My Daughter the Cypress	248
	Preserves	249
	Home for Winter	251
	The Chain	255
	The Ribbon	257
	Yahrzeit	258
	Mother	259
	A Leak in the Heart	261
	My Mother's Obituary	265
	Gifts	266
	You Never Can Tell	273
	Autumn 1980	277
	Collecting Herself	280
	There	286
	Journey to the Mirror	288
	Pebbles and Stones	289
	Dream-Vision	297
	In the Rearview Mirror	300
	No Answer	302
	Contributors	303
	Credits	311

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