Bibliograph

Mother country, a novel, Jacinda Townsend

Type

Label

Mother country, a novel, Jacinda Townsend

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Mother country

Oclc number

1312919819

Responsibility statement

Jacinda Townsend

Sub title

a novel

Summary

Saddled with debt, and diagnosed as infertile after a major car accident, Shannon, an African American woman, follows her boyfriend to Morocco in search of relief. In the cobblestoned medina of Marrakech she finds an apparently abandoned toddler. With the help of her boyfriend and a bribed official, Shannon makes the fateful decision to adopt and raise the girl in Louisville, Kentucky. But the girl already has a mother: Souria, an undocumented Mauritanian woman who was trafficked as a teen, and who managed to escape to Morocco to build another life. Linked by the girl who has been a daughter to them both, Shannon and Souria move toward an inevitable reckoning. -- Adapted from back cover

Target audience

adult

Classification