Like Family

Growing Up in Other People's Houses, a Memoir

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Paula McLain

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An astonishing memoir that "demonstrates the true meaning of family" from the author of The Paris Wife and When the Stars Go Dark, detailing the years Paula McLain and her two sisters spent as foster children after being abandoned by both parents in California in the early 1970s and (Chicago Tribune). As wards of the State, the sisters spent the next 14 years moving from foster home to foster home. 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 The Boys of My Youth and Mary Karr's The 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.

Author Biography:

Paula McLain, author of the bestselling novel The Paris Wife, received her MFA in poetry from the University of Michigan in 1996. Her other books include two volumes of poems, Less of Her and Stumble, Gorgeous, and the novels A Ticket to Ride, Circling the Sun, Love and Ruin, and When the Stars Go Dark. She teaches in the MFA Program in Poetry at New England College, and lives with her family in Cleveland.

Release date NZ

August 6th, 2013

Author

Paula McLain

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Pages

288

Dimensions

140x210x21

ISBN-13

9780316400602

Product ID

21275458

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