That Kind of Mother

from rmarcin

I must have chosen to read this book on the suggestion of a book list. While it was very different from the genre I normally read, it was interesting, but just not my cup of tea. It explored motherhood and its changes to a marriage, to a family, to children. It explored a black child being raised...

from froxgirl

Set in the late 1980s, here's a surprising novel about an upper middle class white mother who adopts her nanny's baby. Rebecca, married to a British diplomat, has just given birth and convinces a helpful hospital La Leche worker, Priscilla, to become her nanny. Rebecca is uncomfortable and embarr...

from shazjhb

Excellent book. Tracing a family in the 80's and 90's. The book stops at the end of the 90's making you wish we could undo the pasted 19 years. Interesting premise.

from shazjhb

Excellent book. Tracing a family in the 80's and 90's. The book stops at the end of the 90's making you wish we could undo the pasted 19 years. Interesting premise.