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The Mistress's Daughter | 
 enlarge | Author: A. M. Homes
Publisher: Penguin Audio
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  58 reviews
Sales Rank: 2261055
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Media: Audio CD
Edition: Unabridged
Number Of Items: 5
Pages: 6
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.9 x 5.2 x 0.8
Dewey Decimal Number: 362.734092
ASIN: B001G7R6JO
Publication Date: April 5, 2007
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Unabridged CDs - 5 CDs, 6 hours
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.
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 Courageous and authentic, no pretense December 10, 2008
I appreciate autobiographies, especially when an author is vulnerable, honest and courageous as AM Homes was in this book. As a writer, Homes is descriptive, engaging and emotionally intense. Homes pulls the emotional strings of her readers by strong, vivid character development. I saw that some reviewers critcized Homes for choices Homes made in her life. I applaud Homes by taking the courage to write about such a difficult personal, topic and opening her life to her readers. The honesty is her book is a demonstration of her humility.
The second half of the book was not as interesting.
Kinda like watching someone else's family videos September 23, 2008
Perhaps if I was adopted or into tracing my family's ancestry, I would have enjoyed this book more. For me, reading this book was like watching someone else's family videos. I could understand how the process was deeply affecting for her, but the story didn't connect with me emotionally.
 Just Awful August 17, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I enjoy reading memoirs so I though I would give this book a shot.
The audio version was PAINFUL (as in oh, my can I possibly listen to yet another disc) --the voice so dry and monotone with long pauses between words in some instances. The reader almost sounded like she was in a deep deep state of depression and could not go on a minute more. It took me 2 months to finish. I kept thinking it would get better but it never did. Fortunately, I did not pay good money for this so all I was out was for my wasted time.
In brief before A.M. Homes was born, she was put up for adoption. Her birth mother was a twenty-two- year-old single woman who was having an affair with a much older married man with children of his own. The Mistress's Daughter is the story of what happened when, thirty years later, her birth parents came looking for her. It's a sad look at adoption in my opinion.
I can't even finish this... August 11, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I picked up this book and started reading it and I honestly have tried to finish but I just can't. I bought it hoping to understand more of what an adoptee might feel. I know, this is what A.M. Homes feels, however, it is so depressing, whiney, and pitiful that I just don't want to go on as it probably will get no better and will most likely become worse. I should know better than to buy a book before reading a review here, which is what I did this time. I won't make that mistake again!
 boring, mediocre writing August 4, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The writer doesn't do a good job of describing her life and who she is, so it's hard to care about what happens to her. Maybe it would work if you were already a fan of her writing, but I was unfamiliar with the writer when I picked up this book. The book is oddly paced; for some reason she builds up a lot of anticipation about the second time she meets her birth mother but doesn't build up the drama in other places where one would expect it. What is she thinking and feeling as these things are unfolding? You get the feeling she doesn't remember anymore because she's writing through the filter of many years passed - not surprising because that's exactly what she's doing. Her dialogue rarely rang true for me; she would have been better off describing what people said instead of making up dialogue that sounded phony. Finally, the genealogy chapters were boring.
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