More than ever, Gornick reveals as much about herself as about the authors whose works she comments on. Fortunately for her readers, literature has few champions as passionate, intelligent, and ruthless as Gornick."
Kirkus

Vivian Gornick recounts that one day she began to reread Return to Howards End and to her great astonishment she discovered that her interpretation of her novel, years after her first reading, was now radically different. Aware that there is nothing like returning to a place that has not changed to discover how oneself has changed, she decided to return to those crucial books that made her the woman she is, and reread them, with the purpose of rediscovering herself. The result of it is Pending Accounts, in which Vivian Gornick combines her two favorite literary genres, literary criticism and memoirs, intertwining the teachings of the readings that marked her life with the story of her own life experiences. she.

In nine stops, the author of Fierce Apegos recounts how over time she identified with different characters from D. H. Lawrence's novel Children and Lovers, analyzes the concept of femininity in Colette's novels, questions the veracity of memory in Marguerite Duras's lover, and explains why whenever he reads Natalia Ginzburg he loves life a little more.

Pending accounts is the celebration of Vivian Gornick's passion for literature, a tribute to reading as a way of knowing oneself, over and over again, and feeling "the power of Life with capital letters". But, above all, it is the opportunity to meet again with the Gornick of always, with that voice that we love and admire so much: brave, incisive and capable of looking at herself.