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

288 pages • 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 14 years movin...

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Moods

emotional 77%
reflective 66%
sad 66%
challenging 55%
dark 22%
informative 11%
inspiring 11%
tense 11%

Pace

slow 50%
medium 50%

Average rating

3.37

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