Woman of Interest - A Memoir
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| Verlag | HarperCollins US |
| Auflage | 2024 |
| Seiten | 288 |
| Format | 13,9 x 20,9 x 2,2 cm |
| Gewicht | 346 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| EAN | 9780063309869 |
| Bestell-Nr | 06330986EA |
MOST ANTICIPATED READ and MUST READ OF 2024: The Millions, LitHub, Esquire, BookRiot, Bustle, Vulture, Boston Globe, Brit & Co, Southern Living
"Woman of Interest is a memoir wrapped in a mystery-an inward examination of family, identity, and self, but also an actual gumshoe detective story. Each extraordinary, prickly sentence is conjured with clarity and conflict. Funny, moving, mean-an exceptional book from an extraordinary writer." -Kevin Nguyen, author of New Waves
"Dark, deeply funny. . . . Dashiell Hammett meets Fleabag."-The New Yorker
?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 and thirtysomething, she was driven by an acute awareness that the mysterious mother she'd never met might be dying somewhere in South Korea.
After contacting a grizzled private investigator, O'Neill took his suggested homework to heart when he disappeared before the job was done, picking up the trail of clues and becoming her own hell-bent detective. Despite COVID-19, the promise of what she might discover-the possibility that her biological mother was her 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 and fugitivity from convention that features 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. 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 hopes of the woman of interest she is both chasing and becoming.
