Like Family: Growing Up in Other People's Houses, a Memoir
Autor Paula McLainen Limba Engleză Paperback – 5 aug 2013
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 14 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 the tradition of Jo Ann Beard'sThe Boys of My Youthand Mary Karr'sTheLiar's 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.
As wards of the State, the sisters spent the next 14 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 the tradition of Jo Ann Beard'sThe Boys of My Youthand Mary Karr'sTheLiar's 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.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780316400602
ISBN-10: 0316400602
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 140 x 210 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.26 kg
Editura: Little, Brown and Company
Colecția Back Bay Books
ISBN-10: 0316400602
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 140 x 210 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.26 kg
Editura: Little, Brown and Company
Colecția Back Bay Books
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Notă biografică
Paula
McLain,
author
of
the
bestselling
novelThe
Paris
Wife,
received
her
MFA
in
poetry
from
the
University
of
Michigan
in
1996.
Her
other
books
include
two
volumes
of
poems,Less
of
HerandStumble,
Gorgeous,
and
the
novelA
Ticket
to
Ride.
She
teaches
in
the
MFA
Program
in
Poetry
at
New
England
College,
and
lives
with
her
family
in
Cleveland.
Recenzii
"Astonishing....With
her
poetic
gift
for
language,
McLain
demonstrates
the
true
meaning
of
family."—Chicago
Tribune
"Ms. McLain's close observation of the sisters' perils jumps with life and wry merriment. They take their pleasures and their sorrows as they arrive; even their times of desolation are narrated in language that conveys a kind of ragged glory - the tattered flag of their kinship still waves!"—Paula Fox, author ofBorrowed Finery
"What makesLike Familyso remarkable are not the peculiar circumstances of Paula McLain's childhood but the depth of understanding that she brings to those circumstances, and the beautiful prose in which she renders that understanding. Seldom have I seen so vividly evoked the need to belong to some, any, kind of family and the painful negotiations that time brings to even our closest intimacies."—Margot Livesey, author ofMercuryandThe Flight of Gemma Hardy
"Like Familyis a personal triumph... McLain's story is one of nobility and of the strength of a young woman's spirit."—Wisconsin State Journal
"A powerful and haunting memoir."—Anne Martino,Ann Arbor News
"Ms. McLain's close observation of the sisters' perils jumps with life and wry merriment. They take their pleasures and their sorrows as they arrive; even their times of desolation are narrated in language that conveys a kind of ragged glory - the tattered flag of their kinship still waves!"—Paula Fox, author ofBorrowed Finery
"What makesLike Familyso remarkable are not the peculiar circumstances of Paula McLain's childhood but the depth of understanding that she brings to those circumstances, and the beautiful prose in which she renders that understanding. Seldom have I seen so vividly evoked the need to belong to some, any, kind of family and the painful negotiations that time brings to even our closest intimacies."—Margot Livesey, author ofMercuryandThe Flight of Gemma Hardy
"Like Familyis a personal triumph... McLain's story is one of nobility and of the strength of a young woman's spirit."—Wisconsin State Journal
"A powerful and haunting memoir."—Anne Martino,Ann Arbor News