Draw up a top five of such books, and straight in at number one would be – this is so obvious, it hardly needs saying – Edmund Gosse’s 1907 tender and wonderfully comic Father and Son (Gosse was reared in a sternly religious Plymouth Brethren home whose values he would eventually reject). I’ve a particular thing for stories in which a certain kind of clever, wryly humorous narrator describes their complicated relationship with a parent. She hates me.” It’s a brilliant book, a classic of its kind, and I commend it to you. On the streets of Manhattan, her mother would stop complete strangers and announce: “This is my daughter. What do I mean by “difficult”? Oh, you know. L ast week, Daunt Books republished Fierce Attachments, Vivian Gornick’s 1987 memoir about her difficult relationship with her mother.
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