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Mama's Child

A Novel

By: Joan Steinau Lester

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Paperback | 7 May 2013

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322 Pages

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21.59 x 13.97 x 1.78

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A stunning tale about the deeply entrenched conflicts between a white mother and her biracial daughter.

"The tenderness and truth of your book moved my heart," wrote Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker to Joan Steinau Lester about Lester's young adult novel Black, White, and Other. In that moving tale, Lester tackled the issues of biracial identity for younger readers. Now, in Mama's Child, she offers a poignant take on those challenges for an adult audience.

Mama's Child follows the life story of an idealistic young white woman who travels to the American South as a civil rights worker. Caught in the fray of racial injustice, she falls in love with the man who will become her husband-but the fact that he is African American brings strife. Together, the young couple settles in San Francisco, where the more liberal city embraces them-except when it doesn't. They raise a son and daughter, but the tensions surrounding them have a negative impact on their marriage and they soon divorce. For their biracial daughter, this split destabilizes her own sense of self-"Am I black or white?" she must ask herself, "Where do I belong?" As the years pass, it isn't until she herself becomes a wife and mother that she begins to develop compassion and understanding for the many ways that her own mother's love transcended race and questions of identity.

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"An astonishing accomplishment. The most passionate, the most honest and brave of books...riveting art."

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