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Scribner
April 2013
On Sale: April 9, 2013
288 pages
ISBN: 1451697252
EAN: 9781451697254
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Fiction Family Life
Poignant, raw, and insightful, Jennifer Gilmore’s third
novel is an unforgettable story of love, family, and
motherhood. With a “voice [that is] at turns wise and barbed
with sharp humor” (Vanity Fair), Gilmore lays
bare the story of one couple’s ardent desire for a child and
their emotional journey through adoption. Jesse and Ramon
are a loving couple, but after years spent unsuccessfully
trying to get pregnant, they turn to adoption, relieved to
think that once they navigate the bureaucratic path to
parent-hood they will have a happy ending. But nothing has
prepared them for the labyrinthine process—for the many
training sessions and approvals; for the constant advice
from friends, strangers, and “experts”; for the birthmothers
who contact them but don’t ultimately choose them; or even,
most shockingly, for the women who call claiming they’ve
chosen Jesse and Ramon but who turn out never to have been
pregnant in the first place. Jennifer Gilmore’s
eloquence about the human heart—its frailties and
complexities—and her razor-sharp observations about race,
class, culture, and changing family dynamics are
spectacularly combined in this powerful novel. Suffused with
passion and fury, The Mothers is a taut, gripping,
and satisfying book that will stay with readers long after
they turn the last page.
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