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| 60% Recommended by our customers. Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics) Catalog: Book Release date: 2008-03-25 Media: Paperback Number of pages: 256 Ean: 9780143113317 Book Isbn: 0143113313  Tip: compare prices with similar booksAuthor:
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| 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. |
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 Written on August 17, 2007 Summary: A bit boring I really thought this book would be more of an interesting read. It was so boring to read. Definately a waste of time and money. Written on August 10, 2007 Summary: the irony escapes her? A.M. Homes writes gracefully, and presents a detailed picture of her experience as an adopted child who was contacted by her birth mother when she was in her early 30s. Soon after, she meets her birth father. I found this book to be blemished and callous, despite her writing skills. Like some other writers whose "memoirs" have appeared on the market in recent years, she is indisputably bright but emotionally callow, and her lack of maturity, wisdom, perspective, and generosity permeate this book. Any appreciation, which her adoptive parents richly deserved, is lacking in her account. Unfortunately Homes spent much time researching her ancestry following her mother's death about ten years ago, which may have hampered her own "moving on" into the next stages of life---commitment, marriage, motherhood. She decided to become pregnant following her adoptive grandmother's death in 1999; by then, she was already 38 and encountered difficulty carrying a child to term. In the final part of the book, she tells us in glowing terms of her daughter, named for that grandmother--a child she is apparently raising alone. The irony escapes her completely that she has denied a father's constant presence and daily love to this little girl, much as her biological father's presence, love, and commitment was denied to her.  Written on August 3, 2007 Summary: Sharp and intelligent as usual A M Homes wrote a very sober account of her childhood. Adopted as a baby, she met her biological parents only when adult. A father with a character larger than life and emotionally unavailable and a childish mother acting as she was the one abandonned, A M Homes tells us about them with a detachment that only those who are emotionally too involved can come up with. Written on July 31, 2007 Summary: Mixed but that's the way it is I, too, am grateful for my adoptive family. I also know (as does anyone who has been adopted) that there are some things adoptive families cannot give you - genes, history, physical likeness. For those of us who feel the need to find those things, this book spoke loudly. Thanks to Ms. Homes for her honesty about the not-so-pretty side of adoption.  Written on July 24, 2007 Summary: Liked the first half... Wasn't going to review this book, because I didn't want to "out" a fellow adoptee in any way, but I'm tired of reading reviews about the book, describing Ms. Homes (or Amy as she was known to me) as an uninterested or non-searching adoptee. I was in an adoption class (late 1980's) at the New School in NYC with Amy, and we met with other women at adoption hero & writer Betty Jean Lifton's apartment on several occasions to discuss our experiences as adopted women. As an adoptee who was new in reunion with my mother, Homes was rabidly curious about my experiences. The book begins with Ms. Homes going about her life as an adopted woman who has "never" searched, and appears uninterested in her own history until her natural mother searches for Ms. Homes. I strongly believe Ms. Homes does other adult adoptees (from the closed adoption/Baby Scoop Era) a disservice by hiding these facts. A majority of adoptees are curious about their origins, as I know Ms. Homes was--before she was "found". That said, I enjoyed the book. I empathized with, and understood many of the complex situations and experiences unique to adoptees that Homes describes so well. Many here have alluded to the common belief that Ms. Homes should be grateful in one form or another. Yawn. She had no choice in being selected by her adoptive family or in being given away by her biological parents. She has the right to her feelings, having lived through what we adoptees know is a very complicated social experiment. I'm thankful she shared her experiences in this book. |
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| Catalog | Book | Book | Book | Book | Book | Book |
| Release date | 2008-03-25 | 2008-04-15 | 2008-04-15 | 2008-04-08 | 2007-04-10 | 2008-09-02 |
| Media | Paperback | Paperback | Paperback | Paperback | Paperback | Paperback |
| Format | - | - | - | Illustrated | - | - |
| Number of pages | 256 | 256 | 336 | 352 | 256 | 432 |
| Ean | 9780143113317 | 9780807072745 | 9780743296540 | 9781401309374 | 9780061143311 | 9781599951584 |
| Book Isbn | 0143113313 | 0807072745 | 0743296540 | 1401309372 | 0061143316 | 1599951584 |
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