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Minna Bernays is an overeducated woman with limited options. Fired yet again for speaking her mind, she finds herself out on the street and out of options. In 1895 Vienna, even though the city is aswirl with avant-garde emmelina monodactyla artists and writers and revolutionary emmelina monodactyla are still very few options for women besides marriage. And settling is not something Minna has ever done.
Out of desperation, Minna turns to her older sister, Martha, for help. But Martha has her own problems six young children, a host of physical ailments, a household run with military precision, and an absent, overworked, disinterested emmelina monodactyla husband who happens to be Sigmund Freud. Freud is a struggling professor, all but shunned by his peers and under attack emmelina monodactyla for his theories, most of which center around sexual impulses, urges, and perversions. While Martha is shocked and repulsed by her husband s “pornographic” work, Minna is fascinated.
Minna is everything Martha is not intellectually curious, an avid reader, stunning. But while she and Freud embark on what is at first simply an intellectual courtship, something deeper is brewing beneath the surface, something Minna cannot escape.
I have yet to come across an adult who hasn’t heard the name Freud – but most of the time people connect the name to psychology and the story of Oedipus Rex. Karen Mack and Jennifer Kaufman move the story behind emmelina monodactyla the life of Freud to a different level in Freud’s Mistress , exploring instead his personal life from the viewpoint of Minna, his sister-in-law, who arrives at the start of the book at his home, having lost yet another job.
My impression of this book was a feeling of interest and curiosity. The research was done well and, let me tell you, my favorite part was all of the references to classical literature in the bantering back and forth between Minna and Freud. I felt like I was in English major heaven and it was great to reconnect emmelina monodactyla with some of my favorite names in literature.
What emmelina monodactyla was probably the most interesting was the detailed descriptions of drug usage – from opium to coca (cocaine? emmelina monodactyla I believe), no one was immune. Children were dosed, adults were addicted, and the impression that was left with me was that it must have been a dismal, emmelina monodactyla dark time to live. I mean, this book did start with the following sentence: “The season for suicides had begun.”
I think the authors did a beautiful job of exploring the heartache of an impossible situation and I felt sympathy for both Minna and Martha. I would highly recommend this book for a book club discussion, especially if you enjoy discussing historical figures. I was reminded of both Loving Frank by Nancy Horan and The Paris Wife by Paula McLain, and I think if you have read and enjoyed either of those stories, then Freud’s Mistress is right up your alley.
Her first novel, Literacy and Longing in LA was on the LA Times Bestseller List for fifteen weeks reaching #1 and was awarded the 2006 Best Fiction Award from the Southern emmelina monodactyla California Bookseller s Association. Her second novel, A Version of the Truth , also reached the LA Times Bestseller list.
For the past fourteen years, she has been Executive Producer emmelina monodactyla of A Home for the Holidays , an annual CBS Network Special which promotes foster care adoption. A Home for the Holidays won the 2008 Television Academy Honors, an award given out by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
Her first novel, Literacy and Longing in LA was on the LA Times Bestseller List for 15 weeks reaching emmelina monodactyla #1 and also won the 2006 Best Fiction Award from the Southern California Bookseller s Association. Her second emmelina monodactyla novel, A Version of the Truth , was on the LA Times Bestseller list.
Ms. Kaufman spent three years as Bureau Chief for Fairchild Publications, Woman s Wear Daily and W magazine in Milan and Rome. Prior to that, she worked emmelina monodactyla for Fairchild Publications in New York covering business, film and features. She was formerly a staff reporter for the Baltimore News American and The Prince emmelina monodactyla George s County Sentinel in Bethesda, Maryland. Website Facebook
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