Pure Flame A Legacy by Michelle Orange

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Title: Pure Flame
Author: Michelle Orange
Year: 2021​



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A searing work of cultural memoir, Michelle Orange's Pure Flame explores the meaning of maternal legacy―in her own family and across a century of seismic change.
In a series of texts with her mother, Michelle Orange learned about the existence of Janis Jerome, who, it turns out, is one of her mother's many alter egos: the name used in a case study, eventually sold to the Harvard Business Review, about her mother's midlife choice to leave her husband and children to pursue career opportunities in a bigger city. A flashpoint in the lives of both mother and daughter, the decision forms the heart of a broader exploration of the impact of feminism on what Adrienne Rich called "the great unwritten story": that of the mother-daughter bond.
The death of Orange's maternal grandmother at nearly ninety-six and the fear that her mother's more "successful" life will not be as long bring new urgency to her questions about the woman whose...

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