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Gallery Books
January 2016
On Sale: January 12, 2016
Featuring: Lucy Wakefield; Mia
320 pages
ISBN: 1476732353
EAN: 9781476732350
Kindle: B00UDCNMZ0
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Simply told but deeply affecting, in the bestselling
tradition of Alice McDermott and Tom Perrotta, this urgent
novel unravels the heartrending yet unsentimental tale of a
woman who kidnaps a baby in a superstore—and gets away with
it for twenty-one years. Lucy Wakefield is a seemingly ordinary woman who does
something extraordinary in a desperate moment: she takes a
baby girl from a shopping cart and raises her as her own.
It’s a secret she manages to keep for over two decades—from
her daughter, the babysitter who helped raise her, family,
coworkers, and friends. When Lucy’s now-grown daughter Mia discovers the devastating
truth of her origins, she is overwhelmed by confusion and
anger and determines not to speak again to the mother who
raised her. She reaches out to her birth mother for a
tearful reunion, and Lucy is forced to flee to China to
avoid prosecution. What follows is a ripple effect that
alters the lives of many and challenges our understanding of
the very meaning of motherhood. Author Helen Klein Ross, whose work has appeared in The New
Yorker, weaves a powerful story of upheaval and resilience
told from the alternating perspectives of Lucy, Mia, Mia’s
birth mother, and others intimately involved in the
kidnapping. What Was Mine is a compelling tale of motherhood
and loss, of grief and hope, and the life-shattering effects
of a single, irrevocable moment.
AwardsFresh Fiction Box Not To Miss, Selection, December 2016
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