Woman of Interest - A Memoir

A National Book Foundation''s 5 Under 35 honoree delivers her first work of nonfiction: a compulsively readable, genre-bending story of finding her missing birth mother and, along the way, learning the priceless power of self-knowledge. In 2020, Tracy O''Neill began to rethink her ideas of comfort and safety. Just out of a ten-year relationship, thirtysomething, and in a world playing by new rules, she was driven by an acute awareness that the mysterious birth mother she''d never met--may be dying somewhere in South Korea. Hiring a grizzled private investigator, O''Neill took his suggested homework to heart and, when he disappeared before the job was done, picked up the trail, becoming her own hell-bent detective. Covid could have already gotten to her mother. Yet the promise of whom and what she might discover--the possibility that her biological mother was her own kind of outlaw, whose life could inspire her own--was too tempting. Written like a mystery novel, Woman of Interest is a tale of self-discovery, featuring a femme fatale of unique proportions, a former CIA operative with a criminal record, and a dogged investigator of radical connections outside the nuclear family and fugitivity from convention. O''Neill gorgeously bends the detective genre to her own will as a writer, stepping out of the shadows of her own self-conception to illuminate the hope-filled woman of interest she is becoming.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Tracy O'Neill
• Editore: Harper Collins Usa
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 29.05.2024
• EAN: 9780063309869
• ISBN: 978-0-06-330986-9
• Pagine: 288
• Dimensioni: 140 mm x 210 mm x 23 mm
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi > Epistole, diari; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Teorie sociologiche; Korea, Ethnic Studies, Biography: general, Asia, United States of America, USA, Travel and holiday, Gender studies: women and girls, Sociology: family and relationships, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Personal Memoirs, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Women, FICTION: Mystery & Detective / General, COMPOSITION & WRITING: MEMOIR & BIOGRAPHY, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS: Adoption & Fostering, SOCIAL SCIENCE: Sociology / Marriage & Family, LITERATURE: MEMOIR & BIOGRAPHY, TRAVEL: Asia / East / Korea, Literature / Memoir & Biography, Composition & Writing / Memoir & Biography