The Nation, September 28th, 1992
"I make large narrative gestures," says Rosellen Brown in an that closes the recently issued Rosellen Brown Reader. "They vault me into lives in order to do what I really want: to examine characters and write as beautifully as I can." Those gestures have been not only large but deep, her characters examined with a tender but scientifically scrupulous eye. In her first novel, The Autobiography of My Mother, grown alternated between the points of view of an alienated mother-daughter pair, the mother a Holocaust survivor, seemingly cold, relentless and remote; the daughter rebelliously askew, as ...
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