Losing Isaiah

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Diversion Books - IPS

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491_9781682300985

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A NATIONAL BESTSELLER AND FEATURE FILM STARRING HALLE BERRY AND JESSICA LANGERiveting...impossible to turn away from. --THE BOSTON GLOBELosing 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. --PUBLISHERS WEEKLYThree-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 boys 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 couples child, and is learning to read. Shes not rich and she doesnt live in the best neighborhood, but shes 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.

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