Feminist activist and writer Vivian Gornick’s memoir, Fierce Attachments, has recently been re-issued in the UK by Daunt Books, bringing this furious and vital book to a British audience for the first time since 1988.
Fierce Attachments is a memoir that enacts its title. It explores Gornick’s attachments to friends, lovers and neighbours; to places; and to her childhood.
But most of all, this is her memoir of the difficult, intense and suffocating attachment to her mother.
