All the Mothers
A Novel
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- $199.00
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- $199.00
Descripción editorial
Welcome to “the mommune.”
From New York Times bestselling author Domenica Ruta comes a “delightful and honest”* novel about a single mom reimagining what the perfect family can look like.
“Have you ever gotten screwed over by a man you never cared all that much for to begin with? Join the club. . . . A joyful journey about the trials of motherhood and found family.”—Harper’s Bazaar*
Sandy thought she was making her greatest mistake yet when she got unexpectedly pregnant in her mid-thirties by a dating-app flop. Now, her baby Rosie is the love of her life, but trying to co-parent with her daughter’s dad, a wannabe rock star, is a challenge—and seems to be veering into catastrophe territory when Sandy finds out through social media that her daughter has a half-sibling Sandy doesn’t know anything about.
Enter her ex’s ex, Stephanie, the other mother. Sandy is prepared to hate her but when the two women meet, they are shocked to learn how much they have in common beyond the deadbeat father their children share. Now Sandy needs to figure out what her and Rosie’s family looks like with all these new additions. Could life in a “mommune” be the answer to her prayers, or just a new brand of chaos?
In this winning story of family both born and chosen, Sandy is about to discover that when nothing goes as planned, the best things become possible.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Bestseller Ruta (Last Day) serves up a deceptively breezy tale of a 30-something Manhattan food writer's found family. When Sandy unexpectedly gets pregnant during a date with Justin, an aspiring rock musician, she decides she likes him enough to try to "make it work." Tara, Justin's mom in Brooklyn, hosts an embarrassingly retro baby shower and lets slip that Justin previously fathered a child with a woman named Steph, whom she describes as a "witch." Things fizzle with Justin and Sandy arranges to meet with Steph, immediately connecting with her and her eight-year-old daughter, Ash. Steph is pursuing a doctorate in psychology at Columbia and deeply in debt, and the women support each other by sharing an apartment and managing their kids' school, day care, and playdates. Then they meet another woman, a hairdresser named Kaya, who has had a child and is pregnant again, by none other than Justin, though he denies being the father, and the three mothers move in together. The plot thickens amid a custody battle with Justin, but what stands out the most are the women and children's efforts to define themselves, as Ash comes out as nonbinary and Sandy resolves to go to law school. Readers will fall in love with this winning novel.
