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    Losing Isaiah
    Losing Isaiah
    Losing Isaiah
    Audiobook13 hours

    Losing Isaiah

    Written by Seth Margolis

    Narrated by Sheila Hart

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    A NATIONAL BESTSELLER AND FEATURE FILM STARRING HALLE BERRY AND JESSICA LANGE

    "Riveting...impossible to turn away from." —THE BOSTON GLOBE

    "Losing Isaiah pushes all the current cultural buttons...[Margolis] gets inside the head of every character." —THE WASHINGTON POST

    "[E]ngrossing and, to its credit, offers no pat answers to complicated issues." —PUBLISHER’S WEEKLY

    Three-year-old Isaiah has two mothers: and they both want him.

    Margaret Lewin adopted Isaiah as a newborn—and she and her husband, Charles, give the boy all the love a child could want and everything that money can buy. But can even the most loving, caring white family be responsible for raising a black child?

    Selma Richards is the boy's birth mother. When Isaiah was born she was illiterate, unemployed, and a crack addict. Giving up her son was the best thing for both of them—at the time. Now Selma has weaned herself off drugs, has a responsible job caring for another couple's child, and is learning to read. She's not rich and she doesn't live in the best neighborhood, but she's healed herself.

    LOSING ISAIAH raises one of the most complex and emotional moral questions of our times, and keeps you rooting for both women until the inevitable and heartrending conclusion in which one mother ends up losing her son.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateFeb 22, 2008
    ISBN9781423353096
    Author

    Seth Margolis

    Seth Margolis worked for six years as a volunteer tutor for Literacy Volunteers of NYC. He is the author of two mysteries, False Faces and Disappearing Acts, and he lives and works on New York City’s Upper West Side.

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    • 5/5
      Full disclosure: I grew up with a younger brother who was both adopted and of a different race.This is a powerful story that gets down to some of the real emotional truths in adoption in a way that only fiction can. If there is a weak point, it is that Selma's lawyer does not bring out the way proper legal procedures in an adoption protect all parties.
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      trans-racial adoption