My Life as a Rat

by Joyce Carol Oates

Book Overview

"A painful truth of family life: the most tender emotions can change in an instant. You think your parents love you but is it you they love, or the child who is theirs?" --Joyce Carol Oates, My Life as a Rat

Which should prevail: loyalty to family or loyalty to the truth? Is telling the truth ever a mistake and is lying for one's family ever justified? Can one do the right thing, but bitterly regret it?

My Life as...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 006289983X
• ISBN13: 9780062899835
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: Ecco Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.1"