Like Family by Paula Mclain
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.Paula McLain obtained her MFA in poetry from the University of Michigan in 1996, and is the author of the bestselling novel The Paris Wife. Less of Her and Stumble, Beautiful are two collections of poems, and A Ticket to Ride is a novel.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780316400602 |
| ISBN 10 | 0316400602 |
| Title | Like Family |
| Author | Paula Mclain |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Back Bay Books |
| Year published | 2013-08-06 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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