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The ""fierce and eloquent"" (New York Times) memoir from A.M Homes, award-winning author of May We Be Forgiven and the forthcoming novel The Unfolding The 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. The Mistress's Daughter 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. ""A compelling, devastating, and furiously good book written with an honesty few of us would risk."" —Zadie Smith  ""I fell in love with it from the first page and read compulsively to the end."" —Amy Tan

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A compelling, devastating, and furiously good book written with an honesty few of us would risk. -Zadie Smith Fierce and eloquent. -The New York Times Book Review As startling and riveting as her fiction . . . a lacerating memoir in which the formerly powerless child triumphs with the help of a mighty pen. -San Francisco Chronicle Rich in humanity and humor . . . Homes combines an unfussy candor with a deliciously droll, quirky wit. . . . Her energy and urgency become infectious. -USA Today I fell in love with it from the first page and read compulsively to the end. -Amy Tan As a memoirist, A. M. Homes takes a characteristically fierce and fearless approach. And she has a whopper of a personal story to tell. -Chicago Tribune aA compelling, devastating, and furiously good book written with an honesty few of us would risk.a aZadie Smith aFierce and eloquent.a a The New York Times Book Review aAs startling and riveting as her fiction . . . a lacerating memoir in which the formerly powerless child triumphs with the help of a mighty pen.a a San Francisco Chronicle aRich in humanity and humor . . . Homes combines an unfussy candor with a deliciously droll, quirky wit. . . . Her energy and urgency become infectious.a a USA Today aI fell in love with it from the first page and read compulsively to the end.a aAmy Tan aAs a memoirist, A. M. Homes takes a characteristically fierce and fearless approach. And she has a whopper of a personal story to tell.a a Chicago Tribune A compelling, devastating, and furiously good book written with an honesty few of us would risk. Zadie Smith Fierce and eloquent. The New York Times Book Review As startling and riveting as her fiction . . . a lacerating memoir in which the formerly powerless child triumphs with the help of a mighty pen. San Francisco Chronicle Rich in humanity and humor . . . Homes combines an unfussy candor with a deliciously droll, quirky wit. . . . Her energy and urgency become infectious. USA Today I fell in love with it from the first page and read compulsively to the end. Amy Tan As a memoirist, A. M. Homes takes a characteristically fierce and fearless approach. And she has a whopper of a personal story to tell. Chicago Tribune

A compelling, devastating, and furiously good book written with an honesty few of us would risk. <br> -Zadie Smith <br><br> Fierce and eloquent. <br> - The New York Times Book Review <br><br> As startling and riveting as her fiction . . . a lacerating memoir in which the formerly powerless child triumphs with the help of a mighty pen. <br> - San Francisco Chronicle <br><br> Rich in humanity and humor . . . Homes combines an unfussy candor with a deliciously droll, quirky wit. . . . Her energy and urgency become infectious. <br> - USA Today <br><br> I fell in love with it from the first page and read compulsively to the end. <br> -Amy Tan <br><br> As a memoirist, A. M. Homes takes a characteristically fierce and fearless approach. And she has a whopper of a personal story to tell. <br> - Chicago Tribune

aA compelling, devastating, and furiously good book written with an honesty few of us would risk.a<br> aZadie Smith <br> aFierce and eloquent.a<br> a The New York Times Book Review <br> aAs startling and riveting as her fiction . . . a lacerating memoir in which the formerly powerless child triumphs with the help of a mighty pen.a<br> a San Francisco Chronicle <br> aRich in humanity and humor . . . Homes combines an unfussy candor with a deliciously droll, quirky wit. . . . Her energy and urgency become infectious.a<br> a USA Today <br> aI fell in love with it from the first page and read compulsively to the end.a<br> aAmy Tan <br> aAs a memoirist, A. M. Homes takes a characteristically fierce and fearless approach. And she has a whopper of a personal story to tell.a<br> a Chicago Tribune

A compelling, devastating, and furiously good book written with an honesty few of us would risk. -Zadie Smith Fierce and eloquent. - The New York Times Book Review As startling and riveting as her fiction . . . a lacerating memoir in which the formerly powerless child triumphs with the help of a mighty pen. - San Francisco Chronicle Rich in humanity and humor . . . Homes combines an unfussy candor with a deliciously droll, quirky wit. . . . Her energy and urgency become infectious. - USA Today I fell in love with it from the first page and read compulsively to the end. -Amy Tan As a memoirist, A. M. Homes takes a characteristically fierce and fearless approach. And she has a whopper of a personal story to tell. - Chicago Tribune

A compelling, devastating, and furiously good book written with an honesty few of us would risk. -Zadie Smith Fierce and eloquent. - The New York Times Book Review As startling and riveting as her fiction . . . a lacerating memoir in which the formerly powerless child triumphs with the help of a mighty pen. - San Francisco Chronicle Rich in humanity and humor . . . Homes combines an unfussy candor with a deliciously droll, quirky wit. . . . Her energy and urgency become infectious. - USA Today I fell in love with it from the first page and read compulsively to the end. -Amy Tan As a memoirist, A. M. Homes takes a characteristically fierce and fearless approach. And she has a whopper of a personal story to tell. - Chicago Tribune

Author Information

A.M. Homes 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 Falling Water and Stephen King’s Mr. Mercedes, 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.

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