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Mother country : a novel / Jacinda Townsend.
Van Pelt Library PS3620.O9596 M68 2022
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Townsend, Jacinda, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African American women--Fiction.
- African American women.
- Women--Morocco--Marrakech--Fiction.
- Women.
- Human trafficking victims--Fiction.
- Human trafficking victims.
- Adopted children--Fiction.
- Adopted children.
- Mothers and daughters--Fiction.
- Mothers and daughters.
- Louisville (Ky.)--Fiction.
- Louisville (Ky.).
- Morocco--Fiction.
- Morocco.
- Genre:
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 292 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2022]
- Summary:
- An African American woman traveling in Marrakech with her boyfriend encounters a toddler in a pink jacket and impulsively decides to adopt her and take her home to Kentucky, separating the child from her mother, a victim of human trafficking who was trying to rebuild her life in Morocco.
- Notes:
- Hurston/Wright Legacy Award - General Fiction, Finalist, 2023
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781644450871
- 1644450879
- OCLC:
- 1312919819
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