The Mistress's Daughter: A Memoir
by A.M. Homes
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Used - Like New
- ISBN 10
- 1862079307
- ISBN 13
- 9781862079304
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Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Synopsis
The acclaimed writer A. M. Homes was given up for adoption before she was born. Her biological mother was a twenty-two-year-old single woman who was having an affair with a much older married man with a family of his own. The Mistress's Daughter is the ruthlessly honest account of what happened when, thirty years later, her birth parents came looking for her. Homes relates how they initially made contact and what happened afterwards, and digs through the family history of both sets of her parents in a twenty-first-century electronic search for self. Daring, heartbreaking, and startlingly funny, Homes's memoir is a brave and profoundly moving consideration of identity and family.
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- Bookseller
- Powell's Bookstores Chicago (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BR0000014
- Title
- The Mistress's Daughter: A Memoir
- Author
- A.M. Homes
- Book Condition
- New
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1862079307
- ISBN 13
- 9781862079304
- Publisher
- Granta Books
- Place of Publication
- London
- This edition first published
- 2007
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