She was raised in Chevy Chase, Maryland and after graduating from Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School she attended American University. Her newest novel, The Unfolding, was published by Viking on September 6, 2022.Īmy Michael Homes was born in 1961 in Washington, D.C. The novel won the Women's Prize for Fiction in 2013. Her novel May We Be Forgiven was published by Viking Books in 2012 its first chapter was published in the 100th issue of Granta (in 2008 edited by William Boyd), and was selected by Salman Rushdie for The Best American Short Stories 2008. Homes, who was adopted at birth, met her biological parents for the first time when she was 31, and published a memoir, The Mistress's Daughter (2007) about her exploration of her expanded "family". Notably, her novel The End of Alice (1996) is about a convicted child molester and murderer. Homes born Decem) is an American writer best known for her controversial novels and unusual short stories, which feature extreme situations and characters. Chapter 1 introduces us to our hero, 48-year-old Harry Silver, who's writhing through yet another Thanksgiving dinner at the crowded table of his rich and powerful younger brother, George.Amy M. After the first page or so of a Homes story, your next stop is always the Twilight Zone.Ĭonsider the way this novel blasts off. Homes' suburbia is a place where yawning sinkholes will suddenly open up in front lawns, swallowing cliched plotlines and opening portals to other dimensions. Homes and I know I've got to watch her every move. Ordinarily, a plot synopsis like that would make me roll my eyes, but I don't - because this is A.M. Her latest book is a novel, May We Be Forgiven, and it returns her to blighted fictional terrain she's wandered through before: that is, the nightmare-scape of contemporary suburbia as seen through the eyes of a middle-aged man who's been stripped - Lear-like - of family, job and belief. It's been a while since her last book, the 2007 memoir The Mistress's Daughter, which is certainly the sharpest and most emotionally complex account of growing up adopted that I've ever read. Homes is a writer I'll pretty much follow anywhere because she's indeed so smart, it's scary yet she's not without heart. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title May We Be Forgiven Author A.
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