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Plume
July 2009
On Sale: June 30, 2009
Featuring: Darlene Stokes; Josh Goldin; Dori Goldin
416 pages ISBN: 0452295521 EAN: 9780452295520 Paperback
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Fiction Family Life | Contemporary
Josh Goldin’s happy yet unexamined existence is shattered
one morning when his wife, Dori, rushes their eight-month-
old son to the emergency room in severe distress. Dr.
Darlene Stokes, an African-American physician and single
mother, suspects Munchausen by proxy, a rarely diagnosed and
controversial phenomenon where a mother intentionally harms
her baby. As each of them is forced to confront a reality
that has become a nightmare, Darlene, Dori, and Josh are
pushed to their breaking points.
Darin Strauss’s
extraordinary novel is set in a world turned upside
down—where doctors try to save babies from their parents,
police use the law to tear families apart, and the people
you think you know best end up surprising you the most.
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