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Author Claire Kahane visits North Branch to discuss her memoir Nine Lives
Author Claire Kahane visits the North Branch to discuss her memoir Nine Lives, available from Brandylane Publishers.
About Nine Lives:
In this tell-all memoir, a woman in her eighties, born during the Great Depression to Jewish immigrants, unveils her intimate self-transformations in the course of nine decades. Determined at an early age to prove herself a free spirit in a male dominated world, as a young adult Kahane went on the road, hitchhiking her way into and out of risky adventures and romantic affairs, ceaselessly chasing new experiences. But what started out as a “road book” takes a different turn in midlife when, influenced by the insights of psychoanalysis and feminism, she became a feminist professor, mother, and wife. In later life, her story changed tracks again when a visit to Auschwitz compelled her to confront her own family history of loss and renewal. The memoir ends with a surprising new twist that opens to a hopeful future. In this long and hard-earned coming-of-age story, readers will find a piece of themselves.
About Claire:
Claire Kahane is a retired Professor of English at the University at Buffalo and a Visiting Scholar in the English Department at the UC Berkeley. A feminist-psychoanalytic critic, she has published books and essays on hysteria in British fiction, the Gothic as a genre, and Holocaust trauma in literature. Her recent memoir, “Nine Lives: My Risky Road from Fifties Rebel to Feminist Critic “ has been reviewed in Kirkus Reviews Magazine, which describes it as “An engaging memoir of life lived to its fullest.”
AGE GROUP: | Adults |
EVENT TYPE: | Authors, Books & Writing |
