That kind of mother : a novel
(Audiobook CD)

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[New York] : Harper Audio, [2018].
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9780062847751, 0062847759
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Published
[New York] : Harper Audio, [2018].
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Audiobook CD
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7 audio discs (approximately 8 hours, 15 minutes) : digital, CD audio ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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9780062847751, 0062847759
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9780062847751

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Compact discs.
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Read by Vanessa Johansson.
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"That Kind of Mother dives deep into big questions about parenthood, adoption, and race: Is mothering something learned, or that you're born to? How far can good intentions stretch? And most of all, can love can really overcome the boundaries of race and class? With his unerring eye for nuance and unsparing sense of irony, Rumaan Alam's second novel is both heartfelt and thought-provoking."--Celeste Ng, author of Little Fires Everywhere ... From the celebrated author of Rich and Pretty, a novel about the families we fight to build and those we fight to keep ... Like many first-time mothers, Rebecca Stone finds herself both deeply in love with her newborn son and deeply overwhelmed. Struggling to juggle the demands of motherhood with her own aspirations and feeling utterly alone in the process, she reaches out to the only person at the hospital who offers her any real help--Priscilla Johnson--and begs her to come home with them as her son's nanny. Priscilla's presence quickly does as much to shake up Rebecca's perception of the world as it does to stabilize her life. Rebecca is white, and Priscilla is black, and through their relationship, Rebecca finds herself confronting, for the first time, the blind spots of her own privilege. She feels profoundly connected to the woman who essentially taught her what it means to be a mother. When Priscilla dies unexpectedly in childbirth, Rebecca steps forward to adopt the baby. But she is unprepared for what it means to be a white mother with a black son. As she soon learns, navigating motherhood for her is a matter of learning how to raise two children whom she loves with equal ferocity, but whom the world is determined to treat differently. Written with the warmth and psychological acuity that defined his debut, Rumaan Alam has crafted a remarkable novel about the lives we choose, and the lives that are chosen for us"--,Provided by publisher.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Alam, R., & Johansson, V. (2018). That kind of mother: a novel (Unabridged.). Harper Audio.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Alam, Rumaan and Vanessa Johansson. 2018. That Kind of Mother: A Novel. Harper Audio.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Alam, Rumaan and Vanessa Johansson. That Kind of Mother: A Novel Harper Audio, 2018.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Alam, Rumaan, and Vanessa Johansson. That Kind of Mother: A Novel Unabridged., Harper Audio, 2018.

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