Too Close to the Falls
by Catherine Gildiner | 
Elsewhere
by Richard Russo | 
What Remains
by Carole Radziwill |
Let Me Finish
by Roger Angell | 
My Mother Was Nuts
by Penny Marshall | 
The Death of Santini
by Pat Conroy | 
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
by Jeanette Winterson | 
Dead End Gene Pool
by Wendy Burden | 
Seldom Disappointed
by Tony Hillerman | 
All You Can Ever Know
by Nicole Chung | 
Burning the Days
by James Salter |
My History
by Antonia Fraser | 
A House Unlocked
by Penelope Lively |
In Pieces
by Sally Field |
Memories of a Catholic Girlhood
by Mary McCarthy | 
When Breath Becomes Air
by Paul Kalanithi | 
Tuesdays with Morrie
by Mitch Albom | 
Born a Crime
by Trevor Noah | 
Educated
by Tara Westover | 
Half Broke Horses
by Jeannette Walls |
The acclaimed writer A. M. Homes was given up for adoption before she was born. Her biological mother was a twenty-two-year-old single woman who was having an affair with a much older married man with a family of his own. The Mistress's Daughter is the ruthlessly honest account of what happened when, thirty years later, her birth parents came looking for her. Homes relates how they initially made contact and what happened afterwards, and digs through the family history of both sets of her parents in a twenty-first-century electronic search for self. Daring, heartbreaking, and startlingly funny, Homes's memoir is a brave and profoundly moving consideration of identity and family.