Like Family Growing Up in Other People's Houses-A Memoir

Hailed as a memoir of unexpected beauty and arresting power, LIKE FAMILY tells the story of three young sisters who are abandoned by their mother and father and raised as wards of the Fresno County, California, court. McLain's unflinching recollection of being shuttled from foster home to foster home across 14 years manages not only to skirt self-pity but-astonishingly-to strike a universal chord, capturing the loneliness, uncertainty, and odd pleasures that are the very essence of adolescence.McLain, Paula is the author of 'Like Family Growing Up in Other People's Houses-A Memoir', published 2004 under ISBN 9780316909099 and ISBN 0316909092.