The Mistress's Daughter

The acclaimed novelist's riveting memoir about what it means to be adopted and how all of us construct our sense of self and family-

To Be Published on APRIL 9, 2007 from VIKING BOOKS

Advance Praise for The Mistress's Daughter by A.M. Homes.

"To my generation of writers, Homes is a kind of hero, and The Mistress's Daughter is the latest example of her fearlessness and brilliance. It is a compelling, devastating, and furiously good book written with an honesty that few of us would risk." --Zadie Smith

"The Mistress's Daughter is an emotional experience - outraging, profoundly saddening, moving, and finally magnificent." --Mary Gaitskill

"The Mistress's Daughter has the beguiling pull of mystery, memory, and surprise. I fell in love with it from the first page and read compulsively to the end. It lays bare those questions about our essential selves: How did we become who we are? What elements of inheritance, neglect, accident, and choice gave us our confused identity, our quirky personality, our urges to be wholly loved? As A.M. Homes shows, there are no definitive answers, but in our search for them, we find more important truths." --Amy Tan

"Both a heartbreak and a thrill to read, The Mistress's Daughter is a radiantly smart memoir of pain and self discovery, outlined in savage, very strange detail. A.M. Homes is a writer of extraordinary depth and courage and grace. Her story will knock you down and pick you back up again." --Sean Wilsey

"Veracious words on the complexity and ambiguity of the fractured life of an adopted child. Celebratory and shattering, it will leave you asking yourself, adopted or not, ... who AM I?" --Jamie Lee Curtis