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The risk of us  Cover Image Book Book

The risk of us / Rachel Howard.

Summary:

What is the cost of motherhood? When The Risk of Us opens, we meet a forty-something woman who deeply wants to become a mother. The path that opens up to her and her husband takes them through the foster care system, with the goal of adoption. And when seven-year-old Maresa comes into their lives, with her inch-deep dimples and a voice that can beam to the moon, their hearts fill with love. But her rages and troubles threaten to crack open their marriage. Over the course of a year, as Maresa approaches the age at which children become nearly impossible to place, the couple must decide if they can be the parents this child needs, and finalize the adoption - or, almost unthinkably, give her up.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781328588821
  • ISBN: 1328588823
  • Physical Description: 200 pages ; 22 cm
  • Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references.
Subject: Motherhood > Fiction.
Adoption > Fiction.
Foster children > Care > Fiction.
Foster parents > Fiction.
Interpersonal relations > Fiction.
Genre: Domestic fiction.

Available copies

  • 4 of 4 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect.
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Sechelt/Gibsons. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Gibsons Public Library. (Show)

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  • 0 current holds with 4 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Holdable? Status Due Date
Gibsons Public Library FIC HOWA (Text) 30886001065131 Adult Fiction Hardcover Volume hold Available -
Burns Lake Public Library AF HOW (Text) 35198000682279 Adult Fiction Volume hold Available -
Castlegar Public Library FIC HOW (Text) 35146002164028 Fiction Volume hold Available -
Kitimat Public Library How (Text) 32665002193151 Fiction Volume hold Available -

RACHEL HOWARD earned her MFA in fiction from Warren Wilson College and is the author of a memoir, The Lost Night. She is the recipient of a MacDowell Colony fellowship, and her fiction, essays, and dance criticism have appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere. 

RACHEL HOWARD earned her MFA in fiction from Warren Wilson College and is the author of a memoir, The Lost Night. She is the recipient of a MacDowell Colony fellowship, and her fiction, essays, and dance criticism have appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere. 


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