{"id":64211,"date":"2023-03-13T04:09:30","date_gmt":"2023-03-13T04:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=64211"},"modified":"2023-03-13T04:09:31","modified_gmt":"2023-03-13T04:09:31","slug":"the-other-mother-a-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=64211","title":{"rendered":"The Other Mother, A Novel"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Other Mother, A Novel<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Counterpoint Press<\/a> (an imprint of Penguin Random House)
\n2022-05-03
\n432 pages
\n6 x 9
\nHardcover ISBN: 9781640095045<\/p>\n

Rachel M. Harper<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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An \u201cextraordinary\u201d page-turning generational saga about a young man\u2019s search for a parent he never knew, and a moving portrait of motherhood, race, and the truths we hide in the name of family (Alice Walker, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Color Purple<\/em>)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jenry Castillo is a musical prodigy, raised by a single mother in Miami<\/a>. He arrives at Brown University on a scholarship\u2014but also to learn more about his late father, Jasper Patterson, a famous ballet dancer who died tragically when Jenry was two. On his search, he meets his estranged grandfather, Winston Patterson, a legendary professor of African American history and a fixture at the Ivy League<\/a> school, who explodes his world with one question: Why is Jenry so focused on Jasper, when it was Winston\u2019s daughter, Juliet, who was romantically involved with Jenry\u2019s mother? Juliet is the parent he should be looking for\u2014his other mother.<\/p>\n

Revelation follows revelation as each member of Jenry\u2019s family steps forward to tell the story of his origin, uncovering a web of secrecy that binds this family together even as it keeps them apart. Moving seamlessly between the past and the present, The Other Mother<\/em> is a daring, ambitious novel that celebrates the complexities of love and resilience\u2014masterfully exploring the intersections of race, class, and sexuality; the role of biology in defining who belongs to whom; and the complicated truth of what it means to be a family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Other Mother, A Novel Counterpoint Press (an imprint of Penguin Random House) 2022-05-03 432 pages 6 x 9 Hardcover ISBN: 9781640095045 Rachel M. Harper An \u201cextraordinary\u201d page-turning generational saga about a young man\u2019s search for a parent he never knew, and a moving portrait of motherhood, race, and the truths we hide in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,8,15,20],"tags":[22713,29090],"class_list":["post-64211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-media-archive","category-novels","category-usa","tag-counterpoint-press","tag-rachel-m-harper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64211"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64212,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64211\/revisions\/64212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}