The Other Mother Harper Rachel M.
A page-turning generational saga about a young man's search for a parent he never knew--and a moving portrait of motherhood, race, and the truths we hide in the name of family--from the Ernest J.…
Specifikacia The Other Mother Harper Rachel M.
A page-turning generational saga about a young man's search for a parent he never knew--and a moving portrait of motherhood, race, and the truths we hide in the name of family--from the Ernest J. Gaines Award-winning author of This Side of Providence.Raised by a single mother in Miami, Florida, Jenry Castillo, newly arrived at Brown University on a music scholarship, finds himself searching for information about his late father Jasper Patterson, an internationally recognized principal ballet dancer who died tragically when Jenry was two. Jenry thinks his estranged grandfather, Winston Patterson, a professor of African American history at Brown and a titan in his field, might have the answers he seeks. Already more than a little intimidating, Winston explodes Jenry's world with one question: Why is the young man so interested in his son Jasper? It was Winston's