Mom Mom

"Clever…engrossing…shifting. An absorbing, uplifting, and informative household story."–Kirkus Critiques

A married couple in California grapples with energy and race, deception and love when their son comes dwelling from a Guatemalan orphanage. 

Up to date artwork museum curator Julie Cowan achieves her dream of motherhood by means of adoption, however her life is much from excellent. Her pathologist husband, Mark, is distracted at work, whereas her hotshot new museum director boss doubts Julie's curatorial chops. And Julie's younger son, Juan, could by no means get well from trauma inflicted by formative years spent in a Guatemalan orphanage.
On the identical time, Juan's start mom, an indigenous Ixil Maya, navigates her personal tumultuous path, starting with surviving a horrific bloodbath.
On this gripping story informed from alternating views, each moms should draw on fierce inside energy to reckon with their life circumstances, and life decisions.