The daughter delves into her mother’s past to tell the story of a Latvian girl who left her village for America with dreams of a life on the stage, only to encounter the realities of her new world: the battles she was forced to fight as a woman, an immigrant worker, and a Jew with family left behind in Hitler’s deadly path. My Mother’s Wars is the imagined memoir that Faderman’s mother was never able to write. Her new book, My Mother’s Wars, published in March, ends with Faderman’s birth. In 2003, Faderman published Naked in the Promised Land: A Memoir, which ends with her mother’s death. Faderman is our great historian, and her books-Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship and Love Be- tween Women from the Renaissance to the Present (1981), Scotch Verdict: The Real-Life Story That Inspired “The Children’s Hour” (1983), Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America (1991), To Believe in Women: What Lesbians Have Done For America: A History (1999), and Gay L.A.: A History of Sexual Outlaws, Power Politics, and Lipstick Lesbians (2006)-opened the closet door to the rich, troubled history of lesbians. Lillian Faderman ha s devoted her career to rescuing from oblivion the voices and stories of lesbians and ethnic minorities.
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