In My Mother's House

In My Mother's House is a beautiful, haunting, and expertly told novel about a daughter's obsession to understand her mother's commitment to silence about their family's experiences during WWII Vienna. The story of Elizabeth and her mother Jenny is remarkable for its fullness of details: the pieces of family silver the grandmother mails to Jenny, piece by piece, over the years; Jenny's vivid memories of her uncle's viola d'amore lessons; the smell of the wood floors in the family's Vienna home. It's an emotional story of what is inherited from one generation to the next.

Author: Margaret McMullan
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: 10/01/2004
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 5.50h x 8.40w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780312318253

Review Citation(s):
New York Review of Books 11/01/2004 pg. 17

About the Author

Margaret McMullan is an English professor at the University of Evansville, Indiana, and the author of a previous novel, When Warhol Was Still Alive.

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