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    Like Family: Growing Up in Other People's Houses, a Memoir
    Like Family: Growing Up in Other People's Houses, a Memoir
    Like Family: Growing Up in Other People's Houses, a Memoir
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    Like Family: Growing Up in Other People's Houses, a Memoir

    Written by Paula McLain

    Narrated by Wendy Tremont King

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    About this audiobook

    This powerful and haunting memoir details the years Paula McLain and her two sisters spent as foster children after being abandoned by both parents in California in the early 1970s.

    As wards of the State, the sisters spent the next fourteen 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 in the tradition of Jo Ann Beard's The Boys of My Youth and Mary Karr's The Liars' 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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateApr 3, 2018
    ISBN9781977379283
    Like Family: Growing Up in Other People's Houses, a Memoir
    Author

    Paula McLain

    Paula McLain received an MFA in poetry from the University of Michigan, and has been a resident of Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony. She is the author of two collections of poetry, two novels, and a memoir, and lives in Cleveland with her family.

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