In "Ghost Stories" (1995), American writer Esther M. Broner facing views of different generations - daughter of modern intellectual, and his mother, who had fled the pogroms of Russia to America, which is difficult to understand each other. After the death of his mother holding daughter mourning is already mental conversations with his mother, and by the end of mourning her with a painful sense of irretrievable loss possible to better understand the mother and her generation.