Becoming my mother's daughter

the long version

"Becoming My Mother's Daughter: A Story of Survival and Renewal tells the story of three generations of a Jewish Hungarian family whose fate has been inextricably bound up with the turbulent history of wartime Europe. The emotional centre and narrative voice of the story belong to Eva, an artist, dreamer, and writer whose riveting recollection of the last months of World War II in Budapest, seen through a child's eyes, is reminiscent in its power of scenes in Joy Kogawa's Obasan. Exploring the bond between generations of mothers and daughters, the book illustrates the struggle between the need for independence and the search for continuity, the significant impact of childhood on adult life, the reshaping of personality in immigration, the importance of dreams in making us face reality, and the redemptive power of memory."--BOOK JACKET.