THAT KIND OF MOTHER

Rebecca Stone is the mother of two very different sons. One is her biological child, and the other is an adopted child of her African-American nanny. Vanessa Johansson narrates this story of love, family, and modern society in a voice full of feeling. With warmth and wry humor, she personalizes Rebecca's difficulty in embracing motherhood. Johansson draws out the universal nature of this struggle since we have all been children and many of us parents. Rebecca's life with her two sons becomes a cultural critique of society's uneven treatment of people. A look at both modern motherhood and family, this is an unpredictable story told by an expert narrator. M.R. © AudioFile 2018, Portland, Maine [Published: MAY 2018]