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SKU:
149390
UPC:
9780393088618
MPN:
0393088618
Condition:
Used
Weight:
12.35 Ounces
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Author Last Name, Author First Name, Pages, Binding, Edition, ISBN 10, ISBN 13, Condition, Publisher, Date Published,

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Author Last Name:
King
Author First Name:
Mary
Pages:
256
Binding:
Hardcover
Edition:
1
ISBN 10:
0393088618
ISBN 13:
9780393088618
Condition:
Used
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Date Published:
6/22/2015
Genre:
Memoir

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"A stirring, vividly told story of a young woman's quest to find the family she lost . . . an impressive debut." ―Peter Balakian\nIn the early 1980s, Mary Hall is a little girl growing up in poverty in Camden, New Jersey, with her older brother Jacob and parents who, in her words, were "great at making babies, but not so great at holding on to them." After her father leaves the family, she is raised among a commune of mothers in a low-income housing complex. Then, no longer able to care for the only daughter she has left at home, Mary's mother sends Mary away to Oklahoma to live with her maternal grandparents, who have also been raising her younger sister, Rebecca. When Mary is legally adopted by her grandparents, the result is a family story like no other. Because Mary was adopted by her grandparents, Mary’s mother, Peggy, is legally her sister, while her brother, Jacob, is legally her nephew.\nLiving in Oklahoma with her maternal grandfather, Mary gets a new name and a new life. But she's haunted by the past: by the baby girls she’s sure will come looking for her someday, by the mother she left behind, by the father who left her. Mary is a college student when her sisters start to get back in touch. With each subsequent reunion, her family becomes closer to whole again. Moving, haunting, and at times wickedly funny, Bastards is about finding one's family and oneself.