Kim Chernin, Author Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill $16.95 (230p) ISBN 978-1-56512-163-8
""If a woman in her thirties turns into a boy, that may mean she's having trouble getting out of the place she's in. She requires the instinctive, wholly natural ruthlessness of a boy."" Chernin (In My Father's Garden) is gripped by this wild ""trans
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Kim Chernin, Author Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill $17.95 (240p) ISBN 978-1-56512-100-3
For most of her life, Chernin (Crossing the Border, 1995), a psychoanalyst now in her mid-50s, has considered herself her ""mother's daughter--stormy, revolutionary."" But, she declares in this affecting and intimate memoir, as she grows older she...
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Kim Chernin, Author Fawcett Books $22 (328p) ISBN 978-0-449-90522-7
Leaving behind her 8-year-old daughter and the child's father in Berkeley, Calif., rebellious, idealistic Chernin ( In My Mother's House ) joined an Israeli border kibbutz in 1971, hoping to dissolve her loneliness in collective solidarity. Instead,
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Kim Chernin, Author Times Books(NY) $0 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8129-1334-7
This first novel by the author of well-received nonfiction (In My Mother's House, etc.) is an earnest, sometimes fervent effort to give modern currency to an ancient Jewish myth about women who tend the flame and pass it from generation to...
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Kim Chernin, Author Crown Publishers $16.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8129-1320-0
Last in a trilogy on the cultural implications of women's preoccupation with food (The Obsession, The Hungry Self), this radical, visionary work also follows The Flame Bearers, a novel on a sect of Jewish women that secretly worshipped the Mother...
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Kim Chernin, Author HarperCollins Publishers $22 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-017118-6
A California psychoanalyst closely examines her 25-year experience as an analysand with three different analysts, each of whom she credits with distinct, if limited, strengths. As a young mother, Chernin (The Hungry Self) began her first analysis...
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Kim Chernin, Author Viking Books $23.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-670-88096-6
Drawing on accounts of mother-daughter conflicts that she heard about as a practicing psychoanalyst, Chernin (Reinventing Eve) provides a method for resolving the problems that can dominate this relationship in her perceptive and creative study....
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Kim Chernin, Author, Renate Stendhal, With HarperCollins Publishers $25 (224p) ISBN 978-0-06-018644-9
Wayne Koestenbaum started something with The Queen's Throat about gays and their frenzy over opera, and now we have a lesbian take on diva worship, at least Chernin and Stendhal's Bartolimania. Stendhal, who here contributes the performance guide to
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Kim Chernin, Author, Kim Cherin, Author, Elisabeth Scharlett, Editor Crown Publishers $17.95 (271p) ISBN 978-0-8129-1676-8
Humorless and overwrought, this discourse on modern female sexuality reads more like a relic from early populist feminist literature than the latest bulletin from the front. Written in alternating chapters by Chernin ( The Hungry Self ) and Stendhal,
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