Like Family: Growing Up in Other People's Houses, a Memoir
By Paula McLain
Read by Wendy Tremont King
Unabridged
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2 Formats: Retail CD
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2 Formats: MP3 CD
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$46.99
ISBN: 9781665228725
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$41.99
ISBN: 9781665228732
| Runtime: | 9.37 Hours |
| Category: | Nonfiction/Biography & Autobiography |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
Summary
Summary
This powerful and haunting memoir details the years Paula McLain and her two sisters spent as foster children after being abandoned by both parents in California in the early 1970s.As wards of the State, the sisters spent the next fourteen 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 in the tradition of Jo Ann Beard's The Boys of My Youth and Mary Karr's The Liars' 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.
Editorial Reviews
Editorial Reviews
“A portrait as riveting as it is sad…Never self-pitying, she nurtures her story as she wanted to be nurtured.” —Library Journal
“A thoughtful recalling of the emotional toll a life of uncertainty can take.” —Kirkus Reviews
Author
Author Bio: Paula McLain
Paula McLain is the author of several New York Times bestselling novels and a memoir and two collections of poetry. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Good Housekeeping, O: The Oprah Magazine, Town & Country, the London Guardian, and the Huffington Post.
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Details
Details
| Available Formats : | Retail CD, MP3 CD |
| Category: | Nonfiction/Biography & Autobiography |
| Runtime: | 9.37 |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
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