That Kind of Mother - A Novel - E-book - ePub

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Rumaan Alam - That Kind of Mother - A Novel.
NAMED A RECOMMENDED BOOK OF 2018 BY:Buzzfeed . The Boston Globe .  The Millions . InStyle . Southern Living . Vogue . Popsugar . Kirkus . The Washington... Lire la suite
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NAMED A RECOMMENDED BOOK OF 2018 BY:Buzzfeed . The Boston Globe .  The Millions . InStyle . Southern Living . Vogue . Popsugar . Kirkus . The Washington Post . Library Journal . Real Simple . NPR"With his unerring eye for nuance and unsparing sense of irony, Rumaan Alam's second novel is both heartfelt and thought-provoking."   - Celeste Ng, author of Little Fires EverywhereFrom the bestselling author of Leave the World Behind, a novel about the families we fight to build and those we fight to keepLike many first-time mothers, Rebecca Stone finds herself both deeply in love with her newborn son and deeply overwhelmed. Struggling to juggle the demands of motherhood with her own aspirations and feeling utterly alone in the process, she reaches out to the only person at the hospital who offers her any real help-Priscilla Johnson-and begs her to come home with them as her son's nanny.
Priscilla's presence quickly does as much to shake up Rebecca's perception of the world as it does to stabilize her life. Rebecca is white, and Priscilla is black, and through their relationship, Rebecca finds herself confronting, for the first time, the blind spots of her own privilege. She feels profoundly connected to the woman who essentially taught her what it means to be a mother. When Priscilla dies unexpectedly in childbirth, Rebecca steps forward to adopt the baby.
But she is unprepared for what it means to be a white mother with a black son. As she soon learns, navigating motherhood for her is a matter of learning how to raise two children whom she loves with equal ferocity, but whom the world is determined to treat differently. Written with the warmth and psychological acuity that defined his debut, Rumaan Alam has crafted a remarkable novel about the lives we choose, and the lives that are chosen for us.

Caractéristiques

  • Date de parution
    08/05/2018
  • Editeur
  • ISBN
    978-0-06-266762-5
  • EAN
    9780062667625
  • Format
    ePub
  • Nb. de pages
    304 pages
  • Caractéristiques du format ePub
    • Pages
      304
    • Protection num.
      Contenu protégé

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Biographie de Rumaan Alam

Rumaan Alam is the author of the novels Rich and Pretty, That Kind of Mother, and the instant New York Times bestseller Leave the World Behind. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, New York Magazine, The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, Bookforum, and the New Republic, where he is a contributing editor. He studied writing at Oberlin College and lives in New York with his family.

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