(Fiction, 336 pp. 2016)
This novel juxtaposes the lives of a little girl and her two mothers: the biological mother, a wealthy Jewish pianist who abandoned her child, and the adoptive mother, a dirt-poor Irish Catholic woman who took the baby in. Set on the New England coast in the 1920s, Solomon’s book investigates class, freedom, gender, sexuality, and the meaning of family.
Reader’s Guide from Penguin Random House
Kirkus Review
Review by Maggie Shipstead, New York Times, August 7, 2016.
Review by Renita Last, Jewish Book Council, June 29, 2016
Review by David Cooper, New York Journal of Books
