Like Family
Growing Up in Other People's Houses, a Memoir
The first book by the author of the New York Times bestseller The Paris Wife is a powerful and haunting memoir of the years she and her two sisters spent as foster children. In the early 70s, after being abandoned by both parents, the girls were made wards of the Fresno County, California court and spent the next 14 years-in a series of adoptive homes. The dislocations, confusions, and odd pleasures of an unrooted life form the basis of one of the most compelling memoirs in recent years--a book the tradition of Jo Ann Beard's Boys of My Youth and Mary Karr'sThe Liar's Club.
McLain's beautiful writing and limber voice capture the intense loneliness, sadness, and determination of a young girl both on her own and responsible, with her siblings, for staying together as a family.
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Format: Electronic Book
Price: $9.99 US/$9.99 CAN
ISBN-13: 9780316082662
On Sale Date: 09/26/2009
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Formats Available: Trade Paperback, Electronic Book, Trade Paperback
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The first book by the author of the New York Times bestseller The Paris Wife is a powerful and haunting memoir of the years she and her two sisters spent as foster children. In the early 70s, after being abandoned by both parents, the girls were made wards of the Fresno County, California court and spent the next 14 years-in a series of adoptive homes. The dislocations, confusions, and odd pleasures of an unrooted life form the basis of one of the most compelling memoirs in recent years--a book the tradition of Jo Ann Beard's Boys of My Youth and Mary Karr'sThe Liar's Club.
McLain's beautiful writing and limber voice capture the intense loneliness, sadness, and determination of a young girl both on her own and responsible, with her siblings, for staying together as a family.
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Product Details
- Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
- Price: $9.99 US/$9.99 CAN
- ISBN-13: 9780316082662
- On Sale Date: 09/26/2009
- Publisher: None
- List Price: $19.99
- Pages: 288
- Physical Dimensions: 5-1/2" x 8-1/4"
- ISBN-13: 9780316909099
- On Sale Date: 09/26/2009
- Publisher: None
- List Price: $9.99
- ISBN-13: 9780316082662
- On Sale Date: 09/26/2009
- Publisher: None
- List Price: $15.00
- Pages: 288
- Physical Dimensions: 5-1/2" x 8-1/4"
- ISBN-13: 9780316400602
- On Sale Date: 09/26/2009
