She never plays it safe, and it begins to look as if she can do almost anything. Homes as one of the bravest, most terrifying writers working today. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Cunningham described this work asĭark and treacherous as ice on a highway. Homes' 1996 novel, The End of Alice, is narrated mostly by a convicted child molester and murderer imprisoned in the West Block of Sing Sing. (Homes was writing this novel and it was in production before her own birth mother tracked her down in 1992.) It centered around a therapist and a girl patient who was adopted the therapist begins to think the girl might be her own daughter, whom she had given up at birth. Her second novel was In a Country of Mothers (1993). Homes wrote a screenplay to adapt it as a film by the same name, produced in 2004 for the cable network Showtime. The book was critically praised and is still featured in school and college reading lists. An exploration of family life and sexuality, it features a boy with divorced parents who learns that his father is gay. She wrote her first novel, Jack, when she was 19 it was published in 1989 when she was 28, after she had published some short stories. Homes has written both short stories and novels the former published in leading magazines such as Granta, The New Yorker, McSweeney's, and BOMB Magazine. She earned her Master of Fine Arts from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. Homes received her Bachelor of Arts in 1985 from Sarah Lawrence College, where she studied with the author Grace Paley. 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.

May We Be Forgiven by A.M. Homes