The Mistress's Daughter
by A. M. Homes
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Author: A. M. HomesEdition: Paperback
Published: 2008-03-25
ISBN: 0143113313
Number of pages: 256
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Book Review: I can't even finish this...
Summary: 1 Stars
I picked up this book and started reading it and I honestly have tried to finish but I just can't. I bought it hoping to understand more of what an adoptee might feel. I know, this is what A.M. Homes feels, however, it is so depressing, whiney, and pitiful that I just don't want to go on as it probably will get no better and will most likely become worse. I should know better than to buy a book before reading a review here, which is what I did this time. I won't make that mistake again!
Summary of 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.Authors Books
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