The Mistress's Daughter

The audiobook version of A.M. Homes' The Mistress's Daughter is only five disks, so it's over with pretty quickly. Not that I wanted it to be over with because it was bad, but it's another painful memoir, with a twist--it's her natural parents re-entering her life who cause her the trouble. The reader is terrific, with a great voice, excellent diction, cadence, and she really pins the biologic mother. Not so great with the father, but he's a tough one--easier to visualize, perhaps. Homes' fiction is often wrenching, never easy, but quite compelling. This would make a good book club read, as one can talk so much about parent-child relationships, and the many changes in cultural attitudes towards adoption and illegitimacy.