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The Mistress's Daughter

A Memoir

A Memoir

A Memoir

By A. M. Homes

By A. M. Homes

By A. M. Homes

By A. M. Homes

By A. M. Homes
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By A. M. Homes
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Paperback $17.00

Mar 25, 2008 | ISBN 9780143113317

Ebook $7.99

Apr 05, 2007 | ISBN 9781101202197

Audiobook Download $22.50

Apr 05, 2007 | 330 Minutes

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    About The Mistress’s Daughter

    The ”fierce and eloquent” (New York Times) memoir by the award-winning author of May We Be Forgiven and This Book Will Save Your Life

    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.

    “A compelling, devastating, and furiously good book written with an honesty few of us would risk.” —Zadie Smith 

    “I fell in love with it from the first page and read compulsively to the end.” —Amy Tan

    About The Mistress’s Daughter

    The ”fierce and eloquent” (New York Times) memoir by the award-winning author of May We Be Forgiven and This Book Will Save Your Life

    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.

    “A compelling, devastating, and furiously good book written with an honesty few of us would risk.” —Zadie Smith 

    “I fell in love with it from the first page and read compulsively to the end.” —Amy Tan

    About The Mistress’s Daughter

    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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    Also by A. M. Homes

    Days of Awe
    May We Be Forgiven
    The Safety of Objects
    This Book Will Save Your Life
    In a Country of Mothers
    See all books by A. M. Homes

    Also by A. M. Homes

    Days of Awe
    May We Be Forgiven
    The Safety of Objects
    This Book Will Save Your Life
    In a Country of Mothers
    See all books by A. M. Homes

    Also by A. M. Homes

    Days of Awe
    May We Be Forgiven
    The Safety of Objects
    This Book Will Save Your Life
    In a Country of Mothers
    See all books by A. M. Homes

    About A. M. Homes

    A. M. Homes is the author of the memoir The Mistress’s Daughter and the novels This Book Will Save Your Life, Music for Torching, The End of Alice, In a Country of Mothers, and Jack, as well as the story… More about A. M. Homes

    About A. M. Homes

    A. M. Homes is the author of the memoir The Mistress’s Daughter and the novels This Book Will Save Your Life, Music for Torching, The End of Alice, In a Country of Mothers, and Jack, as well as the story… More about A. M. Homes

    About A. M. Homes

    A. M. Homes is the author of the memoir The Mistress’s Daughter and the novels This Book Will Save Your Life, Music for Torching, The End of Alice, In a Country of Mothers, and Jack, as well as the story… More about A. M. Homes

    Product Details

    Category: Biography & Memoir | Parenting

    Paperback | $17.00
    Published by Penguin Books
    Mar 25, 2008 | 256 Pages | 5-1/16 x 7-3/4 | ISBN 9780143113317

    Category: Biography & Memoir | Parenting

    Ebook | $7.99
    Published by Penguin Books
    Apr 05, 2007 | 256 Pages | ISBN 9781101202197

    Category: Biography & Memoir | Parenting | Audiobooks

    Audiobook Download | $22.50
    Published by Penguin Audio
    Apr 05, 2007 | 330 Minutes | ISBN 9781429586726

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    Praise

    “A compelling, devastating, and furiously good book written with an honesty few of us would risk.”
    -Zadie Smith

    “Fierce and eloquent.”
    –The New York Times Book Review

    “As startling and riveting as her fiction . . . a lacerating memoir in which the formerly powerless child triumphs with the help of a mighty pen.”
    –San Francisco Chronicle

    “Rich in humanity and humor . . . Homes combines an unfussy candor with a deliciously droll, quirky wit. . . . Her energy and urgency become infectious.”
    –USA Today

    “I fell in love with it from the first page and read compulsively to the end.”
    -Amy Tan

    “As a memoirist, A. M. Homes takes a characteristically fierce and fearless approach. And she has a whopper of a personal story to tell.”
    –Chicago Tribune

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