De dochter van de minnares
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9789023425441 (9023425448)
Publish date: May 2007
Publisher: De Bezige Bij
Pages no: 214
Edition language: Dutch
Aficionados of Homes's seductively creepy novels and short stories will enjoy her memoir, which is in many ways no less weird than her fiction. The first half describes how Homes, at that point an adult woman, learns that her birth mother wants to be in touch. Homes's part of the back story, and her...
The birth parents of A.M. Homes find her after she publishes her first novel. They are walking disasters. Her mother is needy, calling her constantly with demands and cries for help. Her father is aloof, demanding proof she is his real daughter, keeping her a secret from his wife and children.