Circling My Mother.(Brief article)(Book review)

Publication: The New Yorker

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In this unflinching memoir, Gordon, an acclaimed fiction writer, attempts to "walk around" her mother's life, "to view it from many points--only one of which was her career as my mother." She considers Anna Gordon as an employee (a lawyer's secretary for forty-five years, she supported first parents, then...

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