Bibliograph

Like family, growing up in other people's houses : a memoir, Paula McLain

Type

Label

Like family, growing up in other people's houses : a memoir, Paula McLain

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Like family

Oclc number

855188952

Responsibility statement

Paula McLain

Sub title

growing up in other people's houses : a memoir

Summary

In the tradition of Jo Ann Beard's Boys of My Youth, and Mary Karr'sThe Liar'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 a captivating memoir. 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

Target audience

adult

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