{"product_id":"dont-let-my-baby-do-rodeo-9780062384379","title":"Don't Let My Baby Do Rodeo","description":"\u003cp\u003eMaya 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 was the coddled son of Russian immigrants wanting a less predictable life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwenty years later, Maya Rubin is a medical worker in suburban New Jersey, and Alex is his father's second in the family business. The great dislocation of their lives is their eight-year-old son, Max--adopted from two teenagers in Montana despite Alex's view that \"adopted children are second-class.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt once a salvation and a mystery to his parents--with whom Max's biological mother left him with the cryptic exhortation, \"Don't let my baby do rodeo\"--Max suddenly turns feral, consorting with wild animals, eating grass, and running away to sit facedown in a river.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSearching for answers, Maya convinces Alex to embark on a cross-country trip to Montana to track down Max's birth parents. But it's Maya who's illuminated by the journey, her own erstwhile wildness summoned for a reckoning by the unsparing landscape, with seismic consequences for herself and her family.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFishman, Boris:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBoris Fishman was born in Minsk, Belarus, and emigrated to the United States in 1988. His work has appeared in the \u003cem\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eTravel \u003c\/em\u003e+ \u003cem\u003eLeisure\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eNew York \u003c\/em\u003emagazine, the \u003cem\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/em\u003e, and the \u003cem\u003eGuardian\u003c\/em\u003e, among other publications. He is the author of the novels \u003cem\u003eA Replacement Life\u003c\/em\u003e, which was a \u003cem\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/em\u003eNotable Book of the Year and winner of the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award and the American Library Association's Sophie Brody Medal, and \u003cem\u003eDon't Let My Baby Do Rodeo\u003c\/em\u003e, which was also a \u003cem\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/em\u003eNotable Book of the Year. He teaches in Princeton University's Creative Writing Program and lives in New York City.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50459908571410,"sku":"9780062384379","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_9781979d-c54d-4938-9c07-8e0c50cb0736.jpg?v=1730014142","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/dont-let-my-baby-do-rodeo-9780062384379","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}