{"product_id":"the-mistresss-daughter-a-memoir-9780143113317","title":"The Mistress's Daughter: A Memoir","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe \"fierce and eloquent\" (\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e) memoir from A.M Homes, award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eMay We Be Forgiven\u003c\/i\u003e and the forthcoming novel \u003ci\u003eThe Unfolding\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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. \u003ci\u003eThe Mistress's Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A compelling, devastating, and furiously good book written with an honesty few of us would risk.\" --Zadie Smith \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"I fell in love with it from the first page and read compulsively to the end.\" --Amy Tan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e A. M. Homes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.38lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.72h x 5.32w x 0.44d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780143113317\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/13\/2008 pg. 28\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA.M. Homes\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Washington D.C. graduated from Sarah Lawrence College and the University of Iowa, lives in New York City and teaches at Princeton University. Her work appears in ArtForum, Granta, The Guardian, McSweeney's, Modern Painters, The New Yorker, The New York Times, Electric Literature, Playboy, and Zoetrope. She works in television, most recently as as Co-Executive Producer of \u003ci\u003eFalling Water\u003c\/i\u003e and Stephen King's \u003ci\u003eMr. Mercedes\u003c\/i\u003e, and is a contributing editor to Vanity Fair. She is the recipient of awards including the Guggenheim, NEA, and NYFA fellowships. Her most recent novel, May We Be Forgiven, won the Women's Prize for Fiction, 2013, and has been optioned for film by Unanimous Entertainment.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44449880440947,"sku":"9780143113317","price":28.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_59a3d950-24b1-4971-b4ca-a4901d5c8307.jpg?v=1773520160","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/the-mistresss-daughter-a-memoir-9780143113317","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}