Woman of Interest

A National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 honoree delivers her first work of nonfiction: a memoir disguised as a hard-boiled detective plot of finding her missing birth mother and, along the way, learning the priceless power of self-knowledge.

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.