{"product_id":"missing-mothers-martha-bordwell-9781733535304","title":"Missing Mothers: A Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003eSix year old Martha's world is ripped apart when her mother dies during childbirth. As she grows up, she never stops missing her mother, the mother she strains to remember.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBuoyed by marriage to her college sweetheart, she hopefully anticipates pregnancy, childbirth and motherhood. Instead, infertility threatens to rip another hole in her world. She and her husband enter the unfamiliar landscape of interracial and intercultural adoption. They adopt an infant son, Lucas, from South Korea and a daughter, Clara, from Guatemala. Martha commits to providing her children with the childhood she didn't have and to mothering them in ways she can't remember being mothered.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut as the lives of Lucas and Clara unfurl, their individual attitudes toward maternal loss don't conform to Martha's experience or expectations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDuring journeys to Jeju Island off the coast of South Korea to witness her son's marriage, and to Guatemala to vacation and volunteer with her daughter's Mayan ancestors, Martha uncovers new understandings of the ties which bind, and restrain, her complicated family\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Martha Bordwell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1733535306\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781733535304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Crooked Lake Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 258\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.67lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.54d","brand":"Martha Bordwell","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43995845099775,"sku":"9781733535304","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c253762b-2651-49ba-931d-d7aeeb31c679.jpg?v=1683338190","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/missing-mothers-martha-bordwell-9781733535304","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}