{"product_id":"what-was-mine-a-book-club-recommendation-9781476732350","title":"What Was Mine: A Book Club Recommendation!","description":"\"A suspenseful, moving look at twisted maternal love and the limits of forgiveness.\" --People \"Not only a terrific, spellbinding read but a fascinating meditation on the choices we make and the way we love.\" --Elin Hilderbrand, New York Times bestselling author Simply told but deeply affecting, in the bestselling tradition of Alice McDermott and Tom Perrotta, this urgent novel unravels the heartrending yet unsentimental tale of a woman who kidnaps a baby in a superstore--and gets away with it for twenty-one years.Lucy Wakefield is a seemingly ordinary woman who does something extraordinary in a desperate moment: she takes a baby girl from a shopping cart and raises her as her own. It's a secret she manages to keep for over two decades--from her daughter, the babysitter who helped raise her, family, coworkers, and friends. When Lucy's now-grown daughter Mia discovers the devastating truth of her origins, she is overwhelmed by confusion and anger and determines not to speak again to the mother who raised her. She reaches out to her birth mother for a tearful reunion, and Lucy is forced to flee to China to avoid prosecution. What follows is a ripple effect that alters the lives of many and challenges our understanding of the very meaning of motherhood. Author Helen Klein Ross, whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, weaves a powerful story of upheaval and resilience told from the alternating perspectives of Lucy, Mia, Mia's birth mother, and others intimately involved in the kidnapping. What Was Mine is a compelling tale of motherhood and loss, of grief and hope, and the life-shattering effects of a single, irrevocable moment.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRoss, Helen Klein:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Helen Klein Ross is a poet and novelist whose work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Los Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, and in \u003ci\u003eThe Iowa Review \u003c\/i\u003ewhere it won the 2014 Iowa Review award in poetry. She graduated from Cornell University and received an MFA from The New School. Helen lives with her husband in New York City and Salisbury, CT.","brand":"Gallery Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50717834707218,"sku":"9781476732350","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_35fc65df-a621-4565-9900-659e3276ea46.jpg?v=1734627585","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/what-was-mine-a-book-club-recommendation-9781476732350","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}