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Don't Let my Baby Do Rodeo
Boris Fishman
Harper
March 2016
On Sale: March 1, 2016
Featuring: Maya Rubin; Alex Rubin
ISBN: 0062384368
EAN: 9780062384362
Kindle: B00Z74LV2K
Hardcover / e-Book
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Maya Shulman and Alex Rubin met in 1992, when she was a
Ukrainian exchange student with “a devil in [her] head”
about becoming a chef instead of a medical worker, and he
the coddled son of Russian immigrants wanting to toe the
water of a less predictable life.
Twenty years later, Maya Rubin is a medical worker in
suburban New Jersey, and Alex his father’s second in the
family business. The great dislocation of their lives is
their eight-year-old son Max — adopted from two teenagers in
Montana despite Alex’s view that “adopted children are
second-class.”
At once a salvation and a mystery to his parents — with
whom Max’s biological mother left the child with the cryptic
exhortation “don’t let my baby do rodeo” — Max suddenly
turns feral, consorting with wild animals, eating grass, and
running away to sit face down in a river.
Searching for answers, Maya convinces Alex to embark on a
cross-country trip to Montana to track down Max’s birth
parents — the first drive west of New Jersey of their
American lives. But it’s Maya who’s illuminated by the
journey, her own erstwhile wildness summoned for a reckoning
by the unsparing landscape, with seismic consequences for
herself and her family.
Don’t Let My Baby Do Rodeo is a novel about the
mystery of inheritance and what exactly it means to belong.
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