This book's title in the UK was ...OF BLESSED MEMORY.

A 100-year epic of a Jewish family in America, told by Sara, who in the year 2005 finds herself drawn into the tumultuous lives of her ancestors. From her great-grandmother Sarah Solomon through to her grandmother Salome and her mother Sally, Sara also gives her own story.

The author can still turn on the raunch when she feels like it, but here we find her older, wiser and more introspective than in her Fear of Flying days. We here meet four generations of the same family: great-grandmother Sarah, a Russian immigrant who flees her tragic, poverty-stricken origins to become a famed society painter; grandmother Salome, a writer, Parisian flapper and lover of Henry Miller; mother Sally, a folk singer and 60s icon; and Sara, mother and historian, who is piecing together her family’s story for an exhibition in 2005 at New York’s Centre for Jewish History. The nature of Jewishness is examined and celebrated, as is the unique love that binds mother and daughter – and it’s also a marvellous read, in the epic family saga tradition.

See also my registration of her other book FEAR OF FIFTY.

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... And check out Erica Jong's own webpage
(click on her photo)

Erica Jong is the author of eight novels including Fear of Flying, Fanny, Being the True History of Fanny Hackabout-Jones, Shylock’s Daughter (formerly Serenissima), a novel of Venice, and Inventing Memory, a novel of mothers and daughters. Several of her novels have been worldwide best sellers. Fear of Flying, in particular, has been in print in twenty-seven languages for thirty years and is about to be re-issued in a thirtieth birthday edition. It is regarded as a modern classic. Seven million copies have been sold in the US alone. The worldwide figures are approximately twelve million.

Her other books include Fear of Fifty, a mid-life memoir, The Devil at Large, a study of Henry Miller, Witches, What Do Women Want Selected Essays, and six volumes of poetry.

La versione italiana di questo libro della Jong si intitola RICORDERO' DOMANI (Bompiani, 2000)

Contenuto:
Dalla remota Odessa agli Stati Uniti ripercorriamo la storia del Novecento attraverso lo sguardo di quattro generazioni di donne. Le protagoniste del libro sono donne straordinarie, dotate di un coraggio eccezionale, impegnate a combattere le ingiustizie, a lottare fino all'ultimo respiro per conquistare la libertà. E' la storia di Sarah Solomon, la matriarca, che nel 1905 per sfuggire alle persecuzioni antisemite decide di trasferirsi negli Stati Uniti dove coglie le enormi opportunità del nuovo continente. Di sua figlia Salome, che ci cala nel fermento della Parigi degli anni Trenta dove conosce Henry Miller e Anais Nin, Scott e Zelda Fitzgerald, Picasso, James Joyce, Gertrude Stein ed Edith Wharton. Di Sally, figlia di Salome, cantante folk, che ci accompagna negli anni della contestazione giovanile, tra i sogni di un'intera generazione che tra droga e musica rock voleva cambiare il mondo. A chiudere il cerchio è una nuova Sara, nata nel 1978, che recupera la storia della sua famiglia e ricompone, frammento dopo frammento, un quadro d'insieme che le dà il coraggio per affrontare il futuro grazie alla memoria delle donne che l'hanno perduta.