That kind of mother

Resource Information

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Label

That kind of mother

Statement of responsibility

Rumaan Alam

Creator

• Alam, Rumaan

Author

• Alam, Rumaan

Subject

• Interracial adoption -- Fiction
• Motherhood -- Fiction
• Nannies -- Fiction
• New mothers -- Fiction
• Domestic fiction
• Race relations -- Fiction
• Privilege (Social psychology) -- Fiction
• Families -- Fiction

Genre

• Fiction
• Domestic fiction

Language

eng

Summary

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

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

813/.6

Index

no index present

LC call number

PS3601.L3257

LC item number

T48 2018

Literary form

fiction