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# Fierce Attachments: A Memoir (FSG Classics)

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Review: A new favorite - Spectacular writing that made for a spectacular reading experience. Such fun to find a new favorite—a book that I will certainly go back to reread favorite passages. It is a book to share; I read passages out loud to my husband. He liked it too.
Review: A roller coaster ride for mothers and daughters - Searing memories, fine writing, leaves the reader breathless and of very mixed feelings about this extreme self- and other-revelation. Revelation is clearly not in the service of sensationalism. Rather, the telling heightens the understanding of any mother or daughter about issues common to all of us. So I found it inspired much thoughtfulness on my part. But, privacy falls victim. Was this book written while Gornick's mother was still alive? Much more akin to the daughter than to the mother, and quite horrified by some of the mother's actions, I nevertheless empathized with what would (I imagine) have been very hard for her to read. And yes, other reviewers have said the book presents both mother and daughter's sides of the story. Well worth reading. You don't even have to be Jewish, though familiarity with the culture of the period of Gornick's childhood helps a lot.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #70,693 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #172 in Author Biographies #565 in Women's Biographies #1,712 in Memoirs (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars (1,314) |
| Dimensions  | 5.5 x 0.6 x 8.2 inches |
| ISBN-10  | 0374529965 |
| ISBN-13  | 978-0374529963 |
| Item Weight  | 10.4 ounces |
| Language  | English |
| Print length  | 224 pages |
| Publication date  | September 14, 2005 |
| Publisher  | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A new favorite
*by H***R on September 13, 2025*

Spectacular writing that made for a spectacular reading experience. Such fun to find a new favorite—a book that I will certainly go back to reread favorite passages. It is a book to share; I read passages out loud to my husband. He liked it too.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ A roller coaster ride for mothers and daughters
*by B***. on August 2, 2016*

Searing memories, fine writing, leaves the reader breathless and of very mixed feelings about this extreme self- and other-revelation. Revelation is clearly not in the service of sensationalism. Rather, the telling heightens the understanding of any mother or daughter about issues common to all of us. So I found it inspired much thoughtfulness on my part. But, privacy falls victim. Was this book written while Gornick's mother was still alive? Much more akin to the daughter than to the mother, and quite horrified by some of the mother's actions, I nevertheless empathized with what would (I imagine) have been very hard for her to read. And yes, other reviewers have said the book presents both mother and daughter's sides of the story. Well worth reading. You don't even have to be Jewish, though familiarity with the culture of the period of Gornick's childhood helps a lot.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A Staggeringly Effective Personal Work
*by S***Z on September 3, 2022*

Gormick gives us an unflinching look across her life as a child, as a daughter, as a teenager, as a student, as a writer and as a woman through the prism of her personal relationships. It captures the conundrums and paradoxes of the puzzling life of the generations of "American" children who are born with the expectation that they succeed their immigrant parents in New York, yet honor them by never quite becoming independent of their (parents') influence, thrall, and will. The love, passions, regrets, conflict, and obligation that come with "survival" are deftly explored at times with great empathy and at other times with angry recrimination. Skillfully written and teeming with personal insights that will tug at many readers' most defended preconceptions, presumptions, and ideals; The lifelong arc and sweep of this memoir challenges many of our privately held beliefs about love and it explores, often in decidedly indelicate and brutal fashion, the relationships between lovers, friends, and parents.

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