Like Family: Growing Up in Other People's Houses - Paperback
by Paula McLain
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Availability:In StockContributor:Paula McLainTheme:Sex & Gender/Feminine, Topical/Adoption, Topical/FamilyPublish date:5/1/2004Pages:260
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Back Bay BooksISBN-13:9780316909099ISBN-10:0316909092UPC:9780316909099Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Women, Memoirs, RoyaltySize:8.54 x 5.55 x 0.72 inchesWeight:0.368Product ID:SCE5GQK98H
An account of the author's six-month journey from one end of Chile to the other. Her odyssey included Christmas Day spent with a llama sandwich on the Tropic of Capricorn, a sex hotel in the capital, and a trip around Cape Horn on a supply boat delivering a coffin.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Back Bay BooksISBN-13:9780316909099ISBN-10:0316909092UPC:9780316909099Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Women, Memoirs, RoyaltySize:8.54 x 5.55 x 0.72 inchesWeight:0.368Product ID:SCE5GQK98H
After leaving California in 1987, Paula McLain spent the next decade in personal and professional vagabondage. She has worked in auto plants and hospitals and has been a cocktail waitress, a Christmas tree salesperson, a pizza maker, and an English teacher. In 1996, she received her MFA from the University of Michigan. Since then she has been in residence at Bread Loaf, Yaddo and The MacDowell Colony. At work on a novel, she lives in Madison, Wisconsin.
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