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Within this deeply etched and haunting memoir, Vivian Gornick explains to the storyplot of her lifelong battle with her mother for independence. There have been numerous catalogs about mother and little girl, but none has handled this closest of filial relations as straight or as ruthlessly. Gornick's groundbreaking publication confronts what Edna O'Brien has called "the prinicpal crux of feminine despair": the unacknowledged Oedipal aspect of the mother-daughter relationship. Born and elevated in the Bronx, the little girl of "urban peasants", Gornick matures in a household dominated by her sensible but uneducated mother's charming depression over the first death of her partner. Nearby lives Nettie, a nice-looking widow whose determining sensuality appeals greatly to Vivian. These women using their opposing models of femininity continue, well into adulthood, to affect Gornick's struggle to find herself in love and in work. As Gornick strolls with her older mother through the avenues of NY, arguing and remembering days gone by, each wins the listener's admiration: the caustic and clear-thinking little girl, for her courage and tenacity in really speaking with her mother about the standard issues with their lives, and the still powerful and intuitively sensible old woman, who again and again proves herself her daughter's mother. Unsparing, deeply courageous, Fierce Parts is one of the most exceptional documents of family sense that is written, a classic that helped start the memoir increase and remains one of the most moving examples of the genre.
