That Kind of Mother
Book - 2018
"Like many first-time mothers, Rebecca Stone finds herself both deeply in love with her newborn son and deeply overwhelmed. Struggling to juggle the demands of motherhood with her own aspirations and feeling utterly alone in the process, she reaches out to the only person at the hospital who offers her any real help--Priscilla Johnson--and begs her to come home with them as her son's nanny. Priscilla's presence quickly does as much to shake up Rebecca's perception of the world as it does to stabilize her life. Rebecca is white, and Priscilla is black, and through their relationship, Rebecca finds herself confronting ... the blind spots of her own privilege"--
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Publisher:
New York :, Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,, [2018]
Edition:
First edition
ISBN:
9780062667601
9780062864383
9780062667618
9780062864383
9780062667618
Branch Call Number:
Fiction
Characteristics:
291 pages ; 24 cm
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Add a CommentModern Mrs Darcy
I kept thinking there HAD to be something redeeming in the main character. Nope. Unbelievably narcissistic. Living a very charmed life and not appreciating a single moment of it. The universe revolved around her and her whims; the miseries of other 'family' members were simply of no interest to her. The adoption of a child of color was still all about her. She saw herself as parallel to Princess Diana. She was unable to see the truth in any situation. Completely tone deaf to the struggles of people of color. Missing entirely that her eldest son is feeling unloved and pushed aside, she instead had visions of how he will come back to her as a grown man who will bask in all of her accomplishments. If the point of the book was to glorify a despicable character, the author succeeded. YICK.
Don't recommend
Motherhood, race, depression, loneliness and fame. All these subjects were discussed superficially with a plethora of words. Sorry that I finished it.
I might have given the book more than 3 stars but waiting a week to review I had forgotten what the book was about. The timely aspects of bringing up a black child in a white family was only superficially explored. I'd like it more if there was more depth. Overall well written, though.