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1 online resource (1 audio file (9hr., 23 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
| Access |
Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Performer |
Read by Wendy Tremont King. |
| Summary |
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. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
McLain, Paula -- Childhood and youth.
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Foster children -- California -- Biography.
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Women poets, American -- Biography.
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| Added Author |
King, Wendy Tremont, narrator.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781977329288 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1977329284 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT12087945 |
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