Nine Lives: My Risky Road - (Paperback or Softback)

In this tell-all memoir, a woman in her eighties, born during the Great Depression to Jewish immigrants, unveils her intimate self-transformations in the course of nine decades. Determined at an early age to prove herself a free spirit in a male dominated world, as a young adult Kahane went on the road, hitchhiking her way into and out of risky adventures and romantic affairs, ceaselessly chasing new experience. But what started out as a "road book" takes a different turn in midlife when, influenced by the insights of psychoanalysis and feminism, she became a feminist professor, mother and wife. In later life her story changed tracks again when a visit to Auschwitz compelled her to confront her own family history of loss and renewal. The memoir ends with a surprising new twist that opens to a hopeful future. In this long and hard-earned coming-of-age story, readers will find a piece of themselves.

• | Author: Claire Kahane
• | Publisher: Brandylane Publishers, Inc.
• | Publication Date: Jun 03, 2025
• | Number of Pages: 00286 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 1962416828
• | ISBN-13: 9781962416825