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In "What Was Mine," Helen Klein Ross tells the unsettling story of Lucy Wakefield, who, in a moment of desperation, kidnaps a baby in a superstore and raises her for twenty‑one years as her own. The secret, kept from her daughter, friends, and family, unravels when Mia, now grown, learns the truth and confronts her mother. Lucy’s subsequent flight to China compels all involved—the birth mother, Mia and others—to confront questions of identity, motherhood, law, and resilience. Told from alternating perspectives, the novel explores family secrets, deception and the profound impact of a single irrevocable act.
First publish date: 2016
Genre: Literary Fiction/Contemporary Literary Fiction
Authors: Helen Klein Ross
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