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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.
Author: Tracy O'Neill
Publisher: HarperOne
Published: 06/25/2024
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.77lbs
Size: 8.51h x 5.75w x 0.94d
ISBN13: 9780063309869
ISBN10: 0063309866
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Memoirs
- Biography & Autobiography | Asian & Asian American
- Family & Relationships | Adoption & Fostering