01847cam a2200265 4500 2357459127 TxAuBib 20070411120000.0 060712s2007||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2006041354 9780670038381 0670038385 (OCoLC)70778364 TxAuBib Homes, A. M. The mistress's daughter [BOOK] / A. M. Homes. New York : Viking, 2007. 238 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. ǂt The Mistress's Daughter ǂg 3 -- ǂt Unpacking My Mother ǂg 109 -- ǂt The Electronic Anthropologist ǂg 143 -- ǂt My Father's Ass ǂg 183 -- ǂt Like an Episode of L.A. Law ǂg 203 -- ǂt My Grandmother's Table ǂg 223. An acclaimed novelist's 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 22-year-old single woman having an affair with a much older married man. Thirty years later, her birth parents came looking for her. Homes, renowned for the psychological accuracy and intensity of her storytelling, tells how they made contact with her, what happened next, and what she was able to reconstruct about the story of their lives. Her birth mother, a complex and lonely woman, never married or had another child, and died in 1998. Years later, Homes opened boxes of her mother's memorabilia, hoping to know her secrets, but no relief came. She then became obsessed with finding out as much as she could about all four parents and their families.--From publisher description. 20070710. Homes, A. M. Adopted children United States Biography. Birthmothers United States.