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The author of the critically admired, award-winning A Substitution Life turns to another kind of story - an evocative, nuanced family portrait of matrimony and family, a female reckoning using what she's abandoned to make both work, and the widespread question of how exactly we reconcile who we could and whom the globe wishes us to be. Maya Shulman and Alex Rubin attained in 1992, when she was a Ukrainian exchange student with "a devil in [her] brain" about learning to be a chef rather than a medical worker, and he was the coddled kid of Russian immigrants wanting to toe this inflatable water of your less predictable life. Two decades later Maya Rubin is a medical worker in suburban New Jersey, and Alex his father's second in the family business. The great dislocation with their lives is their eight-year-old kid Max - followed from two young adults in Montana despite Alex's view that "adopted children are second-class". Simultaneously a salvation and a mystery to his parents - with whom Max's biological mother left the kid with the cryptic exhortation "don't let my baby do rodeo" - Utmost suddenly becomes feral, consorting with wildlife, eating turf, and working away to sit down facedown in a river. Searching for answers, Maya convinces Alex to go on a cross-country trip to Montana to track down Max's birth parents - the first drive western world of New Jersey with their American lives. But it's Maya who's illuminated by the quest, her own erstwhile wildness summoned for a reckoning by the unsparing panorama, with seismic implications for herself and her family. Don't Let My Baby Do Rodeo is a novel about the mystery of inheritance and just what this means to belong.
