The Mistress's Daughter: A Memoir Audiobook

" A.M. Homes is one of my favorites, and this book was a great glimpse into her looking for where she's come from. Full review soon. "

" thank goodness it took me less than 1 night to read this book ... anymore time and I would have been mad at the wasted time "

" I found the first part of this book very challenging to read. A.M. Homes's description of always feeling like she didn't belong and didn't know her identity (due to her adoption) was very powerful - and made me very sad. I learned a lot from her book and her story. "

" Gripping, but goes by way too fast -- definitely one of those books that began as a New Yorker article (the author admits it in the text) and was fleshed out into a very small book. It's weird to witness this kind of reversal when the same magazine was known for publishing entire books -- Hiroshima, In Cold Blood, Silent Spring -- that went on to become classics. I'm not sure when this trend started of publishing New Yorker articles with probably some few dozen pages of outtakes that were edited out of the magazine version as 'books,' but it's annoying. If the author had worked on this book a few more years and doubled or even tripled its length, given it some weight and heft, it could have been interesting, but I guess that's not how the publishing industry works anymore. "

" I had to struggle to finish this book. The language is boring, inert sentence styling, paragraphs that fail to propel the story forward, page after page of dialogue. The premise of the story is creepy, being stalked by ones birth parents late in life, and I get how she would be attracted to them like a moth to a flame. But there's no real discovery in this memoir, and the writer is never changed by her experience with them. That was the hardest part for me. Certainly, I felt bad for her, and perhaps Homes has been tramatized severly by their neglect and for that reason she can't feel or can't sort out of the complex feelings she has for them exactly how she does feel. But even that could have been a more interesting perspective had a more gifted memoirist written this life story. "

" Just an okay read. An interesting topic to dive into your history and go searching for your past. But I'd rather go read about my own ancestors rather than the authors. "

" Barely put it down, loved it! "

" I guess I really just don't care for A.M. Homes books...my mistake. "

" I found this book interesting, because unlike most adoption reunion tomes, it focused on an adoptee being found by a biological parent. While the author's story is far more dramatic and negative than mine, it came closer than most of what I've read to reflecting the complex reality I've experienced. "

" I was fascinated with this story-- I felt guilty, as though I was secretly reading her diary. What a life this woman has had. "

" Heartbreaking and brutal. Fascinating. Sometimes a little boring but for the most part a really intimate tale of a woman's introduction to her birth parents. Her descriptions of what being adopted felt like to her are beautiful and sad. "

" It was interesting for about half of the time, but I started to get bored with all the researching of the family trees. "

" I couldn't put this book down, I wanted to find out what happens to A.M. (particularly in the first part of the book.). It really slows down in the end. Interesting none the less. "

" Good. Short read. Thought alot about my family "

" Kind of self-pitying memoir by an adopted woman. "

" Hmmmm I typically am a good review giver. 2 stars is appropriate for this book by A.M. Homes. It was just OK. I had a hard time getting through it. It was slow, but a decent story. It is a story of an adopted girl, who as a woman tries to find out who she is. "

" Autobiographical story -- author A.M. Homes finally meets her birth mother, then her birth father. Bottom line: she's darn lucky neither of them raised her. A poignant revelation of life and its complications. "

" Memoir of when her adoptive mother traced her and then how she traced her father. Both parents were extremely eccentric and thereofre it made for an Interesting perspective on the more usual adoption story of child tracing birth mother. "