Description: Rebecca Stone steps forward to adopt the newborn of the one woman who offered her any real help when she was a new mother. But Rebecca is unprepared for what it means to be a white mother with a black son. Navigating motherhood for her will be a matter of learning how to raise two children whom she loves with equal ferocity but whom the world is determined to treat differently.
Brief description:
Vanessa Johansson, Earphones Award-winning narrator, is a film and theater actress and voice-over artist who graduated from Carnegie Mellon University and later trained at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York.
Review Quotes:
"From [a] heartbreaking premise, Alam plumbs still more heartbreaking questions about the power and limitations of maternal love, and the implacable persistence of racial divides."
-- "Huffington Post"