“There is a poetic truth at the heart of ‘The Obsession,’” Christopher Lehmann-Haupt wrote in his New York Times review of the book in 1981. “Eloquently written, passionate in its rhetoric and consistently absorbing, it turns an apparently trivial subject inside out to reveal unacknowledged attitudes and prejudices. Both Kim’s parents were Russian-born Jews and committed Marxists, and before Kim’s birth they returned for a time to Russia, where Mr. Kusnitz worked on plans for the Moscow subway. Kim grew up attending Communist Party rallies, at first in her stroller. Kim fought bitterly with her mother, whom she also revered.

Source: New York Times January 03, 2021 15:38 UTC