Bastards : a memoir / Mary Anna King.
Material type: TextPublisher: Crows Nest, NSW : Pier 9, 2015Edition: First editionDescription: vi, 248 pages : portrait ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781743362266 (paperback)
- Bastards : the remarkable true story of seven siblings who found each other as adults
- King, Mary Anna -- Family
- King, Mary Anna -- Childhood and youth
- Young women -- United States -- Biography
- Children of single parents -- New Jersey -- Biography
- Poor families -- New Jersey -- Biography
- Sisters -- United States -- Biography
- Family reunions -- United States
- New Jersey -- Biography
- Oklahoma -- Biography
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Biographies | Davis (Central) Library Biographies | Biographies | B KIN | 1 | Available | T00588218 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
This is the true story of what happens when seven biological siblings who were adopted by five different families as children are reunited as adults.
Prologue -- Part One. Jersey -- The day the music died -- Marigold Court -- Scars -- The secondhand washing machine -- Bringing Becky back -- Leaving Jersey -- Part Two. Oklahoma -- Reflections -- Telling stories -- Discipline -- Things you can tell just by looking -- The debt -- Wake up -- Part Three. Found -- Hammered -- Like a hole in my head -- Good daughter -- Rebekah two -- Join the club -- Quarter-life crisis -- Requiem -- Meeting Lesley.
"'A stirring, vividly told story of a young woman's quest to find the family she lost...an impressive debut'-Peter Balakian; Born into poverty in southern New Jersey and raised in a commune of single mothers, Mary Anna King watched her mother give away one of her newborn sisters every year to another family. All told, there were seven children: Mary, her older brother, and five phantom sisters. Then one day, Mary was sent away, too. Living 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 had to leave behind, by the father who left her. Mary is a college student when her sisters start to get back in touch. With each reunion, her family becomes closer to whole again. Moving, haunting, and at times wickedly funny, Bastards is about finding one's family and oneself"--Provided by publisher.
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