{"product_id":"the-other-mother-a-novel","title":"The Other Mother: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eWinner of the Stonewall Book Award\/Barbara Gittings Literature Award for Fiction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn \"extraordinary\" page-turning generational saga about a young man's search for a parent he never knew, and a moving portrait of motherhood, race, and the truths we hide in the name of family (Alice Walker, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Color Purple)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJenry Castillo is a musical prodigy, raised by a single mother in Miami. He arrives at Brown University on a scholarship--but also to learn more about his late father, Jasper Patterson, a famous ballet dancer who died tragically when Jenry was two. On his search, he meets his estranged grandfather, Winston Patterson, a legendary professor of African American history and a fixture at the Ivy League school, who explodes his world with one question: Why is Jenry so focused on Jasper, when it was Winston's daughter, Juliet, who was romantically involved with Jenry's mother? Juliet is the parent he should be looking for--his other mother.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRevelation follows revelation as each member of Jenry's family steps forward to tell the story of his origin, uncovering a web of secrecy that binds this family together even as it keeps them apart. Moving seamlessly between the past and the present, The Other Mother is a daring, ambitious novel that celebrates the complexities of love and resilience--masterfully exploring the intersections of race, class, and sexuality; the role of biology in defining who belongs to whom; and the complicated truth of what it means to be a family.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51843398795570,"sku":"9781640095922","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0933\/7146\/6034\/files\/9781640095922.jpg?v=1789774066","url":"https:\/\/www.fullmoonbookgarden.com\/products\/the-other-mother-a-novel","provider":"Full Moon Book Garden","version":"1.0","type":"link"}