An acclaimed novelist's riveting 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 twenty-two- year-old...
Things You Should Know: A Collection ...
A. M. HomesSome of the stories in THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW--an archly didactic title considering the things in it that you've no real need to know--display the grotesque very much for its own sake. The extremity is disproportionate to any human me...
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...
"A big American story with big American themes" (Elle) from the author of the New York Times-bestselling memoir The Mistress's Daughter In this vivid, transfixing new novel, A. M. Homes presents a darkly comic look at twenty...