That Form of Mom: A Novel

NAMED A RECOMMENDED BOOK OF 2018 BY:
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“Together with his unerring eye for nuance and unsparing sense of irony, Rumaan Alam’s second novel is each heartfelt and thought-provoking.”
   — Celeste Ng, creator of Little Fires All over the place

From the bestselling creator of Go away the World Behind, a novel concerning the households we battle to construct and people we battle to maintain

Like many first-time moms, Rebecca Stone finds herself each deeply in love along with her new child son and deeply overwhelmed. Struggling to juggle the calls for of motherhood along with her personal aspirations and feeling totally alone within the course of, she reaches out to the one particular person on the hospital who affords her any actual assist—Priscilla Johnson—and begs her to come back house with them as her son’s nanny.

Priscilla’s presence rapidly does as a lot to shake up Rebecca’s notion of the world because it does to stabilize her life. Rebecca is white, and Priscilla is black, and thru their relationship, Rebecca finds herself confronting, for the primary time, the blind spots of her personal privilege. She feels profoundly linked to the lady who basically taught her what it means to be a mom. When Priscilla dies unexpectedly in childbirth, Rebecca steps ahead to undertake the infant. However she is unprepared for what it means to be a white mom with a black son. As she quickly learns, navigating motherhood for her is a matter of studying how you can increase two kids whom she loves with equal ferocity, however whom the world is decided to deal with in a different way.

Written with the heat and psychological acuity that outlined his debut, Rumaan Alam has crafted a outstanding novel concerning the lives we select, and the lives which are chosen for us.