Book · 1987 · Nonfiction

Fierce Attachments

Name: Fierce Attachments
Author: Vivian Gornick

A Memoir

Vivian Gornick

Farrar, Straus, and Giroux (Macmillan) · 203 pages

★ 6.4 editorial score

Gornick walks Manhattan with her widowed mother, arguing the argument they have had since the Bronx tenement of her girlhood. Writing programs teach it as how a memoir is built.

Genre

Autobiography and memoir Feminism

Medium

Memoir

Subject

Family Women Identity Mother-daughter

Setting

Bronx

Time

1987

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