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Simply told but deeply impacting, in the best-selling tradition of Alice McDermott and Tom Perrotta, this urgent book unravels the heartrending yet unsentimental tale of a female who kidnaps child in a superstore - and gets away with it for 21 years. Lucy Wakefield is a apparently ordinary woman who does something extraordinary in a eager moment in time: She requires a baby gal from a shopping cart and boosts her as her own. From the 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 disastrous real truth of her roots, she is overwhelmed by distress and anger and decides never to speak again to the mother who increased her. She extends to out to her birth mother for a tearful reunion, and Lucy is obligated to flee to China to avoid prosecution. What follows is a ripple effect that alters the lives of several and obstacles our knowledge of the very meaning of motherhood. Creator Helen Klein Ross, whose work has made an appearance in The New Yorker, weaves a robust tale of upheaval and resilience told from the alternating perspectives of Lucy, Mia, Mia's birth mother, while others intimately involved in the kidnapping. What Was Mine is a convincing tale of motherhood and reduction, of grief and trust, and of the life-shattering ramifications of a single irrevocable moment.
