Mother of My Mother; the Intimate Bond Between Generations

In Hope Edelman's new book - part memoir, part reportage, she brilliantly explores the three-generational triangle from which women develop their female identities: the grandmother-mother-granddaughter relationship. Edelman writes that her grandmother and her mother together "defines the terms 'mother', daughter' and 'women' for me. The three of us, in my memory, are separate yet linked, like sequential pearls in a strand. Drawing from her own experience and the recollections of more that 70 other granddaughters, Hope Edelman constructs an eloquent narrative filled with stories of women who were each other's nurturers, confidantes, nemeses and day to day supporters, among other roles. At the centre of all of these stories stands the maternal grandmother