Book
Like family : growing up in other people's houses : a memoir / Paula McLain.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780316400602 (trade paperback)
- Physical Description: 260 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition: First Back Bay trade paperback edition.
- Publisher: Boston : Back Bay Books/Little, Brown and Company, 2013.
- Copyright: ©2003
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "First Back Bay trade paperback edition, May 2004. Reissued, August 2013"--Title pageverso. A reading group guide follows text. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | McLain, Paula > Childhood and youth. Foster children > California > Biography. Women poets, American > Biography. |
| Genre: | Autobiographies. Biographies. |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lakeshore Branch | 362.733092 McLai | 31681010178572 | NONFICPBK | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
A compelling account of growing up as a foster child describes how she and her two sisters were abandoned by their parents, her next fourteen years in a series of temporary homes, and the impact of the continual dislocations, confusions, and sometimes pleasures of her unrooted life. Reprint. - Baker & Taylor
An account of growing up as a foster child describes how the author and her two sisters were abandoned by their parents, spent the next fourteen years in a series of temporary homes, and finally as adults came to terms with their uprooted lives. - Grand Central PubAn astonishing memoir that "demonstrates the true meaning of family" from the author of The Paris Wife and When the Stars Go Dark, detailing the years Paula McLain and her two sisters spent as foster children after being abandoned by both parents in California in the early 1970s and (Chicago Tribune).
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's The Boys of My Youth and Mary Karr's The Liar'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.
