Publisher's Synopsis
In her moving memoir, Marge Piercy, the novelist and poet, shares her perspective on life and writes of her development as a feminist, activist and writer. Born into a poor family in Detroit, she vividly recounts her upbringing and events that shaped her life, including two rocky marriages and her final contentment with her third husband. Piercy includes several of her most memorable poems, and revisits the people, circumstances and actions which inspired her to write them. Throughout her life are her cats, steadfast companions who remain while the people in her life come and go.
