What Was Mine by Helen Klein Ross
Simply told but deeply affecting, in the bestselling tradition of Alice McDermott and Tom Perrotta, this urgent novel unravels the heartrending yet unsentimental tale of a woman who kidnaps a baby in a superstore--and gets away with it for twenty-one years. Lucy Wakefield is a seemingly ordinary woman who does something extraordinary in a desperate moment: she takes a baby girl from a shopping cart and raises her as her own. It's a secret she manages to keep for over two decades--from her daughter, the babysitter who helped raise her, family, coworkers, and friends. When Lucy's now-grown daughter Mia discovers the devastating truth of her origins, she is overwhelmed by confusion and anger and determines not to speak again to the mother who raised her. She reaches out to her birth mother for a tearful reunion, and Lucy is forced to flee to China to avoid prosecution. What follows is a ripple effect that alters the lives of many and challenges our understanding of the very meaning of motherhood. Author Helen Klein Ross, whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, weaves a powerful story of upheaval and resilience told from the alternating perspectives of Lucy, Mia, Mia's birth mother, and others intimately involved in the kidnapping. What Was Mine is a compelling tale of motherhood and loss, of grief and hope, and the life-shattering effects of a single, irrevocable moment.Helen Klein Ross is a poet and novelist whose work has appeared in publications such as The New Yorker, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, and The Iowa Review, where she earned the Iowa Review prize for poetry in 2014. She earned a bachelor's degree from Cornell University and an MFA from The New School. Helen splits her time between New York City and Salisbury, Connecticut, with her husband.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781476732350 |
| ISBN 10 | 1476732353 |
| Title | What Was Mine |
| Author | Helen Klein Ross |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Gallery Books |
| Year published | 2016-01-05 |
| Number of pages | 336 |
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