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MOTHERS AND OTHER STRANGERS
Two expectant mothers, best friends since childhood, reunite after a their mothers (also best friends) had mysteriously kept them apart for years.
When Sydney and Mae meet on the playground as toddlers, it seems like kismet. Even their very different mothers -- the type-A Beth Anne and the free-spirited Joni -- agree the girls are made for each other, and it's not long until both families are staples in one another's lives.
Decades later, the loneliness of her sudden falling out with Mae still lingers for the newly pregnant Sydney. Adrift after the inexplicable absence of her closest friend, Sydney has been drawn into a Multi-Level Marketing scheme, exacerbated by her inflexible mother, Beth Ann, whose constant scrutiny seems reserved for her daughter.
Across the city, Mae is stunned to find herself single, pregnant, and still haunted by the loss of her mercurial late mother, Joni, whose mysterious death holds as many unanswered questions as Mae herself.
When they find themselves back in one another's lives with baby girls on the horizon, it once again seems like destiny, as Mae and Sydney begin to pull one another away from the coercive influence of others -- mommy groups and marketing schemes and ex-boyfriends.
But they'll soon discover it is not destiny, but decision, that once again draws Sydney and Mae together, this time towards a devastating secret at the center of their orbits; a truth that will either bind them or shatter them, for good.
A searing novel about mothers and daughters, destiny and desire, and breaking cycles, MOTHERS AND OTHER STRANGERS is a perfect book club novel that holds a mirror up to readers, with results that are at once enlightening and entertaining.
Corey Ann Haydu is the author of several titles for children and young adults, and a professor of Vermont College of Fine Arts' creative writing for children program. Her books have been Edgar Award nominees, Amazon Books of the Month, Junior Library Guild Selections, Kirkus, PW, and SLJ Best Books of the Year, and more. MOTHERS AND OTHER STRANGERS is her adult debut. Corey lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two daughters and is currently at work on her next adult novel.
Decades later, the loneliness of her sudden falling out with Mae still lingers for the newly pregnant Sydney. Adrift after the inexplicable absence of her closest friend, Sydney has been drawn into a Multi-Level Marketing scheme, exacerbated by her inflexible mother, Beth Ann, whose constant scrutiny seems reserved for her daughter.
Across the city, Mae is stunned to find herself single, pregnant, and still haunted by the loss of her mercurial late mother, Joni, whose mysterious death holds as many unanswered questions as Mae herself.
When they find themselves back in one another's lives with baby girls on the horizon, it once again seems like destiny, as Mae and Sydney begin to pull one another away from the coercive influence of others -- mommy groups and marketing schemes and ex-boyfriends.
But they'll soon discover it is not destiny, but decision, that once again draws Sydney and Mae together, this time towards a devastating secret at the center of their orbits; a truth that will either bind them or shatter them, for good.
A searing novel about mothers and daughters, destiny and desire, and breaking cycles, MOTHERS AND OTHER STRANGERS is a perfect book club novel that holds a mirror up to readers, with results that are at once enlightening and entertaining.
Corey Ann Haydu is the author of several titles for children and young adults, and a professor of Vermont College of Fine Arts' creative writing for children program. Her books have been Edgar Award nominees, Amazon Books of the Month, Junior Library Guild Selections, Kirkus, PW, and SLJ Best Books of the Year, and more. MOTHERS AND OTHER STRANGERS is her adult debut. Corey lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two daughters and is currently at work on her next adult novel.
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