Like Family: Growing Up in Other People's Houses, a Memoir by Paula McLain

Like Family: Growing Up in Other People's Houses, a Memoir

Paula McLain with Wendy Tremont King (Narrator)

missing duration info Add in missing duration information • first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction memoir emotional reflective slow-paced

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This powerful and haunting memoir details the years Paula McLain and her two sisters spent as foster children after being abandoned by both parents in California in the early 1970s. As wards of the State, the sisters spent the next fourteen years ...

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reflective 100%
sad 75%
challenging 50%
emotional 50%
dark 25%
informative 25%

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slow 75%
medium 25%

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3.45

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