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Lädt ... The Other Mother: A Novel (2022. Auflage)von Rachel M. Harper (Autor)
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. 4.25 stars. i really love the way she gives us everyone's perspective here (except noelle, who may have deserved a say although i understand why she didn't get one) and what she's saying about family and connection, and about motherhood (and a little about fatherhood/parenthood). this is so lovely. the writing, the emotion, the way we make terrible decisions and have to live with the consequences. the way we sometimes try to right wrongs or make up for those mistakes, but how we can't change the past no matter how much we want to. they way we can carry love for someone for so many years, whether or not they even know of our existence, or no matter how they feel about us. there's so much here and it's all so beautifully rendered. "What does it mean to be the one who remembers?" "How is it that he continues to compress time, and why? What feels like a few years go might be decades, whereas yesterday feels as remote as a memory from his childhood. This is the tragedy of age, he thinks, his mind like an uncatalogued library with memories wedged wherever they fit on shelves, instead of placed in a logical order. The assumption - or better yet, the ease - of chronology has become a myth he's sure a young person invented." "Unlike his wife's family, he was proud to have the blood of slaves in his veins. It proved they were stronger, since they had survived the impossible." Zeige 2 von 2 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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"Raised by a single mother in Miami, Florida, Jenry Castillo, newly arrived at Brown University on a music scholarship, finds himself searching for information about his late father Jasper Patterson, an internationally recognized principal ballet dancer who died tragically when Jenry was two. Jenry thinks his estranged grandfather, Winston Patterson, a professor of African American history at Brown and a titan in his field, might have the answers he seeks. Already more than a little intimidating, Winston explodes Jenry's world with one question: Why is the young man so interested in his son Jasper? It was Winston's daughter, Juliet, who was his mother's lover. Juliet is the parent he should be looking for-his other mother. Seamlessly moving between the past and the present to piece together the complicated web that has both bound this family together and kept them apart, The Other Mother is a profoundly moving and masterful exploration of the power of love and family; of the intersections of race, class, providence, and sexuality; the role of patriarchy in defining who belongs to whom; and of the relevance of biology in determining familial bonds and what it means to be related. Unfurling in the most surprising and satisfying of ways, revelation follows revelation as each member of Jenry's family peels back layers of a story that is at once deeply familiar-of first love, betrayal, and the selfishness of youth, of the beautiful, complicated love between parents and children-and also compelling in its centering of queer lives and people of color"-- Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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I felt this was done skillfully, and all of the characters were well-rounded, with strengths and flaws. Sometimes maybe it was over-dramatic, but after all, sometimes life is pretty dramatic.
I especially appreciated reading a book that talked about lesbian parenthood in the 90's; since that mirrors my own experience. In the end, the book really focusses on the strength of all kinds of family bonds, and there is a lot of sweetness, along with dysfunction. ( )