Imagine that you've always wanted a baby. What would you do
if you
saw one left alone in a store?
This is just what happened to Lucy in WHAT WAS MINE. For
several years, she
and her husband, Warren, have tried to have a baby but have
not been
able to conceive. She goes through life wanting nothing more than to have
a child of her own. Warren has had enough, and he leaves
Lucy.
One day, while shopping in IKEA, Lucy comes upon a baby
girl
left alone in a stroller. Lucy looks around but doesn't
see
anyone with her. Marylyn is the woman who left the baby
for a second to take a
call from work. What a shock when she discovers her baby
gone. All Lucy
wanted to do was take the baby outside because it was very
cold
in the store and the baby was not in the best outfit.
Forward to years later. Marylyn has never given up hope
her daughter would be found. During this time,
Marylyn's
husband left her, and she is now married again with three
children. That has not stopped her from wanting her
first child back.
Lucy has given Mia everything a child could want, but in
some surprising turns of event, Mia finds out she was
stolen from her natural parents. Will Mia and her real mom
finally get to reunited? What will happen to the
relationship between Mia and Lucy?
What a great storyline. Helen Klein Ross writes a story
which you might think is unbelievable but I'm sure
it could be true. While I found myself cheering for
Lucy, I also felt bad for Marylyn. And then there's Mia.
I can't even imagine what this would be like for all
involved. Helen Klein Ross
writes with such emotions from all sides. WHAT WAS MINE is sad in parts,
happy in others.
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.
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