Additional information
| Dimensions | 5.5×8.5 |
|---|---|
| Format | paperback |
| Page Count | 305 |
Reviews
“With her usual engaging prose, Lynne Hugo unspools a tender tale of parenthood in all its many faces as her characters struggle to live with the outcome of their past decisions. Those past choices color the present in bold strokes, raising the stakes to keep the pages turning. Hugo’s compassion for her characters—and her readers–shines through.” —Diane Chamberlain, New York Times bestselling author of The Last House on the Street
“Lynne Hugo’s brilliantly prismatic story is about choice versus destiny, forgiveness versus acceptance, all told through the lens of a heartbreaking adult adoptee, his adoptive parents, his birth mother who is now desperate to contact her son, and the attorney she hires who is part of a Lesbian couple with an adopted bi-racial child. Secrets emerge, relationships fracture, but out of the wreckage, Hugo has built a moving, extraordinary story of hope. I loved it.” —Caroline Leavitt, New York Times bestselling author of Pictures of You and Days of Wonder
“Lynne Hugo, a writer of immense talent and rare insight, dips her sharp yet sympathetic pen in a well of revelation as she brings each character to life. I cared and worried about all of them, despite their transgressions, rooting for them to find their path […]Mothers of Fate places self-determination on the stand.” —Randy Susan Meyers, internationally bestselling author
“In MOTHERS OF FATE, Hugo explores, from many angles, the often beautiful, sometimes difficult, and always complex relationships surrounding any adoption—relationships with those you love the most and with those that you have never met.” —Jeff Hoffmann, author of Like It Never Happened and Other People’s Children
I write in black Wal-Mart capri sweatpants. They don’t start out as capris, but I routinely shrink them in the drier by accident. And I always buy black because it doesn’t show where I’ve wiped the chocolate off my hands. My previous high grade of “below average” in Domestic Achievement has dropped somewhat. But I’m less guilty about it now. I lose myself in crafting language by a window with bird feeders hanging in the branches of a Chinese elm towering over the house. When I come up for air, I hike by the ponds and along the river in a nearby forest with my beloved Lab. My husband, with whom I planted that elm as a bare root sapling, joins us when he can.
Mothers of Fate
A married couple, attorney Monica and social worker Angela, have adopted a biracial baby, to whom they are devoted. When a disabled woman comes to the attorney’s office asking her to find the son she was forced to give up in a closed adoption nearly thirty years ago, Monica takes the case–to the fury and dismay of her wife.
$20.95
