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Description
An acclaimed novelist’s riveting memoir about what it means to be adopted and how all of us construct our sense of self and family Before A.M. Homes was born, she was put up for adoption. Her birth mother was a twenty-two- year-old single woman who was having an affair with a much... read more
First Sentence
I remember their insistence that I come into the liiving room and sit down and how the dark room seemed suddenly threatening, how I stood in the kitchen doorway holding a jelly doughnut and how I never eat jelly donuts.
Table of Contents
I. Book One
1. The Mistress's Daughter
II. Book Two
1. Unpacking My Mother
2. The Electronic Anthropologist
3. My Father's Ass
4. Like an Episode of L.A. Law
5. My Grandmother's Table
Acknowledgments
Authors & Contributors
- A. M. Homes (Author)
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