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Mother country : a novel /

An African American woman traveling in Marrakech with her boyfriend encounters a toddler in a pink jacket and impulsively decides to adopt her and take her home to Kentucky, separating the child from her mother, a victim of human trafficking who was trying to rebuild her life in Morocco.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Townsend, Jacinda (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2022]
Subjects:
African American women > Fiction.
Women > Morocco > Marrakech > Fiction.
Human trafficking victims > Fiction.
Adopted children > Fiction.
Mothers and daughters > Fiction.
Louisville (Ky.) > Fiction.
Morocco > Fiction.
Noires ameÌ?ricaines > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Victimes de la traite des êtres humains > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Enfants adopteÌ?s > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Mères et filles > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Fictional Work
Novels.
Romans.
Description
Summary:An African American woman traveling in Marrakech with her boyfriend encounters a toddler in a pink jacket and impulsively decides to adopt her and take her home to Kentucky, separating the child from her mother, a victim of human trafficking who was trying to rebuild her life in Morocco.
Physical Description:292 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN:9781644450871
1644450879