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The Mistress's Daughter - A Memoir (Paperback, Export ed)
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The Mistress's Daughter - A Memoir (Paperback, Export ed)
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On the day that Homes was born in 1961, she was given up for
adoption. Her birth parents were a twenty-two year old woman and an
older married man with whom she was having an affair. Thirty years
later, out of the blue, Homes was contacted by a lawyer on behalf
of her birth mother, and they began to correspond; her biological
father contacted her soon after. These two individuals and their
effect on the adult Homes are strange and unexpected, and the story
spirals into something utterly raw and hilarious, heartbreaking and
absurd. Along the way, Homes describes the clash between her
childhood fantasies of her birth parents and the disappointing
reality. She writes about the experience of experiencing biological
resemblance for the first time, in "My Father's Ass", and the
addictiveness of the genealogical research she embarks on. She
reflects on the significance of DNA testing, and having two mothers
and two fathers. She unearths profound truths about her family and
herself. Finally, she writes very movingly about her own baby
daughter, and the way she has recently helped to mend Homes'
fractured life.
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