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1 online resource |
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| Summary |
The author of the critically admired, award-winning A Replacement Life turns to a different kind of storýђؤan evocative, nuanced portrait of marriage and family, a woman reckoning with what she's given up to make both work, and the universal question of how we reconcile who we are and whom the world wants us to be.Maya Shulman and Alex Rubin met in 1992, when she was a Ukrainian exchange student with "a devil in [her] head" about becoming a chef instead of a medical worker, and he the coddled son of Russian immigrants wanting to toe the water of a less predictable life.Twenty years later, Maya Rubin is a medical worker in suburban New Jersey, and Alex his father's second in the family business. The great dislocation of their lives is their eight-year-old son Max́ђؤadopted from two teenagers in Montana despite Alex's view that "adopted children are second-class."At once a salvation and a mystery to his parentśђؤwith whom Max's biological mother... |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. New York : HarperCollins e-books, 2016. Requires OverDrive Read (file size: N/A KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 559 KB) or Amazon Kindle (file size: N/A KB). |
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Fiction.
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Literature.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Original 9780062384362 |
| ISBN |
9780062384386 (electronic bk) |
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