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Requires OverDrive Media Console (file size: 79296 KB). |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Downloadable audio file. |
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Title from: Title details screen. |
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Unabridged. |
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Duration: 5:31:03. |
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Read by Jane Adams. |
| Summary |
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 older married man with children of his own. The mistress's daughter is the story of what happened when, thirty years later, her birth parents came looking for her. Homes, renowned for the psychological accuracy and emotional intensity of her storytelling, tells how her birth parents initially made contact with her and what happened afterward (her mother stalked her and appeared unannounced at a reading) and what she was able to reconstruct about the story of their lives and their families. |
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Homes, A. M.
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Adopted children -- United States -- Biography. -- Sound recordings.
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Birthmothers -- United States. -- Sound recordings.
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| Added Author |
Adams, Jane.
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| ISBN |
9781415939444 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book) |
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1415939446 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book) |
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