The Observer - The Mistress's Daughter Adopted writer AM Homes's The Mistress's Daughter takes an unsatisfactory meeting with her birth parents and turns it into a violent fable for the 21st century, says Hilary Spurling More |
Chicago Tribune - The Mistress's Daughter Finding a lost family--and losing it again. By Jane Ciabattari As a memoirist, A.M. Homes, whose often-shocking fictional tales from the underbelly of suburbia have brought her substantial literary cache, takes a characteristically fierce and fearless approach. More |
Salon - The Mistress's Daughter Years after reuniting with my own birth mother, reading A.M. Homes' new memoir of adoption was like finding the journal I never kept. By Emma Pears More |
NPR/Fresh Air: Audio Link - The Mistress's Daughter A Novelist's Memoir: 'Mistress's Daughter' Click Here to Listen @www.npr.org |
San Francisco Chronicle - The Mistress's Daughter Novelist sears birth parents in memoir by N. Heller McAlpin Click Here to Read the Article @www.sfgate.com or Click More to read the Text Only Version More |
Atlanta Journal Constitution - The Mistress's Daughter Family drama plays out in unconventional fashion. Click Here to Read the Article @www.ajc.com or Click More to read the Text Only Version More |
The Seattle Times - This Book Will Save Your Life "This Book Will Save Your Life": A wake-up call to life's possibilities By Mark Lindquist Special to The Seattle Times Click Here to Read the Article More |
Bookforum - This Book Will Save Your Life In 1980, the New Statesman held a contest to determine the world's most improbable book title; the winning entry was "My Struggle by Martin Amis." The punch line was probably more amusing at the time than it is today... More |
New York Times - Things You Should Know What do you see in Edvard Munch's painting The Scream; the horror of the visage or the innocence of a visage torn by horror? Without the latter, the former, after the jolt of the... More |
The Guardian - Things You Should Know If the first major literary marker of the American dream of aspiration, potential and never-ending youth was F. Scott Fitzgerald's lyrical piece of... More |
Granta - Things You Should Know Barry Lopez describes stories as "a powerful and clarifying human invention. It is through story that we embrace the great breadth of... More |
Washington Post- Things You Should Know The no-doubt, behind-closed-doors existence of Ronald Reagan has been a source of national speculation since the former president was... More |
The Independent Magazine - Things You Should Know Among those thanked at the end of this collection of short stories are Bill Buford, former fiction editor of The New Yorker, super-agent... More |
The Irish Times - Things You Should Know Before entering the weirdly dark world of A.M. Homes, it might be useful to know that these stories are far from typical of... More |
Elle Magazine - Things You Should Know Nobody probes the soft, dark underbelly of family life more expertly than A.M. Homes. Her new collection of stories, Things You Should... More |
Newsweek - Music For Torching At one point in A.M. Homes's new novel, Music for Torching, suburban women take an ax to a dining-room table damaged in a house fire. "I could do this forever," one says. More |
Washington Post- Music For Torching In this remarkable fourth novel, A.M. Homes delivers a sad/funny, wild-card strewn indictment of the ways our lives don't work... More |
Mirabella - Music For Torching Not many writers make a virtue of depravity. A.M. Homes does so repeatedly, in novels and stories that explore—even seem to celebrate—the most perverse and violent impulses of the human heart. More |
Times Literary Supplement - Music For Torching There is fearlessness in the banality of the prose voice A.M. Homes employs in her new novel Music for Torching. Homes is a writer whose pervading... More |
New York Times - Music For Torching Some novels you either love or hate unequivocally. Others and these often prove to be the most durable of all—elicit a more... More |
The Commercial Appeal Review - Music For Torching In one of those prescient acts that propel a work of fiction ahead of its competitors, A.M. Homes aims her new novel, Music for Torching, straight at the daily headlines. Luck was... More |
Vogue - The End of Alice Child abuse has become a comfortable new category of human misery, much talked about and deplored. But behind the flat phrase lies a harsh... More |
VLS - The End of Alice A.M Homes's The End of Alice takes a Lewis Carroll quote for its epigraph, "A stopped clock is right twice a day." It's an apt introduction to... More |
New York Times - The End of Alice What can you say about a 19-year-old girl who likes to chew on fresh scabs from the knee of a 12-year-old boy? What can you say about a love story... More |
Mirabella - The End of Alice Suppose that you hold in your hand a trim little book of horrors: a tale told by a sexual deviant who seduces little girls, a man who, from prison, reaches... More |
Times Literary Supplement - The End of Alice When it was published in America last year, A.M. Homes's novel was both, widely reviled and widely admired. More |
New Statesman - The End of Alice The most controversial novel of the autumn belongs to an established fictional genre. If people are outraged, it's because they find it arousing. More |
Independent Saturday Magazine - The End of Alice A.M. Homes's novel The End of Alice (anchor 6.99) was misinterpreted and excoriated by the moral majority on it's original, highly controversial American publication. More |
LA Times - The End of Alice Feeling snug as a bug in a rug? Beware, gentle reader, the soothing aspects of life as we know it are about to be profoundly disturbed. Crack the back of The End of Alice and a visceral nerve... More |
Washington Post - In a Country of Mothers A book by A.M. Homes is not for the fainthearted or, for that matter, the hardhearted. She has the ability to scare you half to death with portraits of good... More |
The Houston Post - In a Country of Mothers Whether you love her or hate her, your relationship with your mom is undoubtedly one of the most complex, deeply felt of your life. No aspect of life is... More |
San Fransisco Chronicle - In a Country of Mothers A.M. Homes's intriguing third novel explores the powerful connection between two women as they test—and ultimately violate—the boundaries of... More |
New York Times - In a Country of Mothers The imagination that shapes A.M. Homes's fiction is exhilaratingly perverse. She is the author, for example, of "A Real Doll," a brilliant and totally... More |
Newsday - In a Country of Mothers For a long time now, A.M. Homes has been a young writer to watch, so, for better or worse, her new novel, In A Country of Mothers, qualifies as that thing... More |
Mirabella - The Safety of Objects They voyage through oceanwide malls, nest in snug homes, peck at their lawns. And bluer than velvet are their eyes. (So to speak.) Suburbanites live... More |
Washington Post - The Safety of Objects A.M. Homes's collection of short stories, The Safety of Objects, is anything but safe. However, the objects are less threatening than the wacko characters in this enthralling spiral into surrealist... More |
Bob Satuloff - The Safety of Objects Reading an author for the first time can be a risky business. It can start out innocently enough as a sort of recreational literary... More |
Unison Magazine - The Safety of Objects The American writer A.M. Homes has been likened to J.D. Salinger; but she also has a little of our own Ian McEwan in her make-up. Her stories have a... More |
New York Times - Jack The engaging, doggedly funny 15-year-old protagonist of Jack is alive, living in the suburbs and not doing too well. Wisecracking his way... More |
Publishers Weekly - Jack It's hard to believe that the author of this first novel was never a teenage boy, because she perfectly captures the feelings, actions and even... More |
The Washington Blade - Jack First-person narratives are like opera performances; you'll forgive anything if the voice moves you. But the difference between most opera books... More |
