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)

9 hours, 23 minutes • first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction memoir emotional reflective slow-paced

Description

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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Moods

emotional 71%
reflective 71%
challenging 57%
sad 57%
dark 14%
informative 14%

Pace

slow 66%
medium 33%

Average rating

3.4

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