Donna Freed
Auteur de The Metamorphosis and Other Stories (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
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Œuvres de Donna Freed
The Metamorphosis and Other Stories (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) (1996) — Traducteur, quelques éditions — 378 exemplaires
Oeuvres associées
The Metamorphosis and Other Stories [Barnes & Noble Classics] (1913) — Traducteur — 2,055 exemplaires
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- Date de naissance
- 19??
- Sexe
- female
- Professions
- translator
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- Œuvres
- 2
- Aussi par
- 1
- Membres
- 380
- Popularité
- #63,551
- Évaluation
- 3.9
- Critiques
- 1
- ISBN
- 10
Donna learned she and her older siblings were adopted when she was six, a fact that her parents left unsaid unless specifically asked about it. Her adoptive mother was unconventional and as recorded, not always a very good and caring parent, but they came to terms with their relationship before she passed away. It is after her mother passed away that, as an adult in her 30's, Donna began looking for her birth mother and when she found her she also found a link to a true crime story. In 1967, her birth mother and father were involved with a scheme to collect a double indemnity insurance claim.
This is a novel of two parts. the first is Donna's childhood and her relationship with her dysfunctional adoptive parents, especially her mother. The second happens much later, after the half way point, and covers her search for her birth mother. Generally, I enjoy memoirs, but this one is not quite as compelling or interesting as the description implies. Honestly, the writing is average and nothing in her story reads like a thriller. There are many memoirs that are more engaging even without a tie to a true crime tale. Readers who enjoy memoirs will likely enjoy this more than I did.
Disclosure: My review copy was courtesy of Muswell Press via NetGalley.
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