Like Family - Growing Up in Other People's Houses, a Memoir (Paperback)

In the tradition of Jo Ann Beard's "Boys of My Youth," and Mary Karr's"The""Liar's Club," Paula McLain has written a powerful and haunting memoir about 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 a captivating memoir. 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.

General

Imprint:	Back Bay Books
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	August 2013
First published:	August 2013
Authors:	Paula McLain
Dimensions:	210 x 140 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	288
ISBN-13:	978-0-316-40060-2
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > Royalty Books > Biography > Royalty
LSN:	0-316-40060-2
Barcode:	9780316400602

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