Review: In a Country of Mothers

In a Country of Mothers by A.M. Homes
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

i have kind of a love/like relationship with a.m. homes. sometimes i love her work, sometimes it bores the hell out of me. this one was was more in the middle. i liked it enough, but something wasn't ringing true here, and when i found out she borrowed heavily from her own story of being adopted, i figured that must be it. maybe the subject matter was too close for her to be able to write in a completely authentic way about a situation where a psychologist gets too close to a patient that she believes might be the daughter she once gave up. the story moved along pretty well, but at the end i had a hard time believing the way these characters were acting. read "this book will save your life" it's loads better.

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