{"product_id":"pure-flame","title":"Pure Flame","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Rich and moving'' \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''A book that expands and breaks your heart'' Adelle Waldman\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Love Affairs of Nathaniel P.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA revelatory enquiry into selfhood, freedom, mortality, storytelling, and what it means to be a mother''s daughter\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDuring one of the texting sessions that became our habit over the period I now think of as both late and early in our relationship, my mother revealed the existence of someone named Janis Jerome.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSo begins Michelle Orange''s extraordinary inquiry into the meaning of maternal legacy - in her own family and across a century of seismic change. Jerome, she learns, is one of her mother''s many alter egos: the name used in a case study, eventually sold to the \u003ci\u003eHarvard Business Review\u003c\/i\u003e, about her midlife choice to leave her husband and children to pursue career opportunities in a bigger city. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA flashpoint in the lives of both mother and daughter, the decision forms the heart of a broader exploration of the impact of feminism on what Adrienne Rich called ''the great unwritten story'': that of the mother-daughter bond.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough a blend of memoir, social history, and cultural criticism, \u003ci\u003ePure Flame\u003c\/i\u003e pursues a chain of personal, intellectual, and collective inheritance, tracing the forces that helped transform the world and what a woman might expect from it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57314235875710,"sku":"NW9781911215974","price":12.84,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/pure-flame","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}