Like Family: Growing Up in Other People's Houses: A Memoir
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The first book by the author of the New York Timesbestseller The Paris Wifeis a powerful and haunting memoir of the years she and her two sisters spent as foster children. In the early 70s, after being abandoned by both parents, the girls were made wards of the Fresno County, California court and spent the next 14 years-in a series of adoptive homes. 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 the tradition of Jo Ann Beard's Boys of My Youthand Mary Karr'sTheLiar's Club.
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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.
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