Mother Mother
Book Feature - Mother Mother by Jessica O’Dwyer
HBL Note: Brace yourself for this one, it is bound to be a tear-jerker. It tells the story of two women living very different lives: one is a life of privilege and the other lives in poverty. But they share one important connection: a son. We read about the long and arduous adoption experience from the perspective of the adoptive mother and we read the heartbreaking story of how one mother ended up putting her son up for adoption. Scroll down to read more.
Book Feature - Mother Mother by Jessica O’Dwyer
Book Feature - Mother Mother by Jessica O’Dwyer
From the publisher:
Contemporary art museum curator Julie Cowan achieves her dream of motherhood through adoption, but her life is far from perfect. Her pathologist husband, Mark, is distracted at work, while her hotshot new museum director boss doubts Julie's curatorial chops. And Julie's six-year-old son, Juan, may never recover from trauma inflicted by early life spent in a Guatemalan orphanage.
At the same time, Juan's birth mother, an indigenous Ixil Maya, navigates her own tumultuous path, beginning with surviving a horrific massacre.
In this gripping tale told from alternating perspectives, both mothers must draw on fierce inner strength to reckon with their life circumstances, and life choices.
Book Feature - Mother Mother by Jessica O’Dwyer
