Ebook {Epub PDF} Like Family: Growing Up in Other Peoples Houses by Paula McLain

 · Overview. In the tradition of Jo Ann Beard's Boys of My Youth, and Mary Karr's The Liar's Club, Paula McLain has written a powerful and haunting memoir about 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 www.doorway.ru: Little, Brown and Company. Like Family: Growing Up in Other People's Houses: a Memoir: Author: Paula McLain: Publisher: Little, Brown, ISBN: , Length: pages: Subjects/5(4).  · Like Family: Growing Up in Other People's Houses. by. Paula McLain (Goodreads Author) · Rating details · 1, ratings · reviews. The first book by the author of the New York Times bestseller The Paris Wife is a powerful and haunting memoir of the years she and her two sisters spent as foster children/5.

Like Family: Growing Up in Other People's Houses, a Memoir was an all too familiar tale to those of us who have worked in the system. Reading this story from a real life "graduate" of that system was inspirational. An astonishing memoir that "demonstrates the true meaning of family" from the author of The Paris Wife and When the Stars Go Dark, detailing the years Paula McLain and her two sisters spent as foster children after being abandoned by both parents in California in the early s and (Chicago Tribune). As wards of the State, the sisters spent the next 14 years moving from foster home to foster. Buy Like Family: Growing Up in Other People's Houses by Paula McLain online at Alibris. We have new and used copies available, in 2 editions - starting at $ Shop now.

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