That kind of mother / Rumaan Alam.
"Like 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"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780062667601
- Physical Description: 291 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2018.
- Copyright: ©2018.
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Subject: | Race relations > Fiction. Motherhood > Fiction. Nannies > Fiction. |
Genre: | Domestic fiction. |
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- 7 of 7 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Kimberley Public Library.
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- 0 current holds with 7 total copies.
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590 | . | ‡aIt's 1985, and like many first-time mothers, Rebecca Stone finds herself equally overwhelmed and overjoyed by her newborn son. Her husband is willing to abdicate child-rearing to her as he focuses on his career as a diplomat, so Rebecca is left on her own to juggle the demands of motherhood with her aspirations to be a poet. She aims to follow the example of Princess Diana - a personal idol, the living embodiment of grace and good humor. But it's not the princess who changes Rebecca's life; it's Priscilla Johnson, who comes to work as the family nanny. Priscilla brings order to the household even as her presence shakes up Rebecca's perception of the world. As race once again becomes a flash-point in American society, so too it becomes a deeply personal matter insides Rebecca's cloistered and comfortable life - an opportunity to confront, for the first time, the blind spots in her own privilege. Rebecca feels so profoundly connected to the woman who has taught her what it means to be a mother that when Priscilla dies unexpectedly in childbirth, it seems strangely natural for Rebecca to step 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 will be a matter of learning how to raise two children whom she loves with equal ferocity, but whom the world is determined to treat differently. | |
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