![]() ![]() Rebecca and her apprehensive husband, Christopher, soon legally adopt the baby, Andrew, as their own son, thus formalizing the familial structures that Alam constructs with gentle, unflinching honesty. Noting that even in grief she doesn’t “want to be someone who needs help,” Cheryl, who is nearing the end of her own pregnancy, agrees to let Rebecca intervene temporarily. Cheryl’s mother, Priscilla, who’d worked as Rebecca’s nanny, has died of labor-related complications, and Rebecca offers to care for the surviving infant. In Alam’s ambitious second book, That Kind of Mother, two women-Rebecca, who is white, and Cheryl, who is black-find themselves bound not by blood or years, but by some mercurial mix of love, obligation, and shared fear. In Rich and Pretty, his sharp-witted 2016 debut novel, childhood friends Sarah and Lauren fear the unraveling of their closeness as they grow older. About themselves, about each other, about the world, and often about their children. ![]() Rumaan Alam writes women who bond over their worry. ![]()
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