Like Family: Growing Up in Other People's Houses
A Memoir
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Word Count
60,000 words, Guess
Page Count
240 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL10427920M
- ISBN-139780316597425
- ISBN-100316597422
- OCLC Control Number50096840
- OCLC Control Numberlikefamilygrowin0000mcla
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2002073060
- Goodreads645866
- LibraryThing598569
Classifications
- LCCHV883.C2 M35 2003
Description
In the tradition of Jo Ann Beard's Boys of My Youth, and Mary Karr'sTheLiar'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 one of the freshest memoirs to be published in recent years.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.
First Sentence
DOGS ARE EASY.
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