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Thomas Dunne Books
March 2019
On Sale: February 26, 2019
288 pages
ISBN: 1250076048
EAN: 9781250076045
Kindle: B07D2C58KC
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Women's Fiction
Award-winning author Irina Reyn explores what it means to be
a mother in a world where you can't be with your child Nadia's daily life in south Brooklyn is filled with small
indignities: as a senior home attendant, she is always in
danger of being fired; as a part-time nanny, she is forced
to navigate the demands of her spoiled charge and the
preschooler's insecure mother; and as a ethnic Russian, she
finds herself feuding with western Ukrainian immigrants who
think she is a traitor. The war back home is always at the forefront of her reality.
On television, Vladimir Putin speaks of the "reunification"
of Crimea and Russia, the Ukrainian president makes
unconvincing promises about a united Ukraine, while American
politicians are divided over the fear of immigration. Nadia
internalizes notions of "union" all around her, but the one
reunion she has been waiting six years for - with her
beloved daughter - is being eternally delayed by the
Department of Homeland Security. When Nadia finds out that
her daughter has lost access to the medicine she needs to
survive, she takes matters into her own hands. Mother Country is Irina Reyn's most emotionally
complex, urgent novel yet. Hopeful and full of humor, it is
a story of mothers and daughters and, above all else,
resilience.
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