The risk of us
What is the cost of motherhood? When The Risk of Us opens, we meet a forty-something woman who deeply wants to become a mother. The path that opens up to her and her husband takes them through the foster care system, with the goal of adoption. And when seven-year-old Maresa comes into their lives, with her inch-deep dimples and a voice that can beam to the moon, their hearts fill with love. But her rages and troubles threaten to crack open their marriage. Over the course of a year, as Maresa approaches the age at which children become nearly impossible to place, the couple must decide if they can be the parents this child needs, and finalize the adoption - or, almost unthinkably, give her up.
Item details
- ISBN: 1328588823
- ISBN: 9781328588821
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Physical Description:
200 pages ; 22 cm
print - Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019.
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
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Subject: | Interpersonal relations Fiction Foster parents Fiction Foster children Care Fiction Adoption Fiction Motherhood Fiction |
Genre: | Domestic fiction. |
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