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Mother Country

A Novel

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Mother Country

By: Irina Reyn
Narrated by: Kathleen Gati
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Award-winning author Irina Reyn explores what it means to be a mother in a world where you can't be with your child.

Nadia's daily life in south Brooklyn is filled with small indignities: as a senior home attendant, she is always in danger of being fired; as a part-time nanny, she is forced to navigate the demands of her spoiled charge and the preschooler's insecure mother; and as a ethnic Russian, she finds herself feuding with western Ukrainian immigrants who think she is a traitor.

The war back home is always at the forefront of her reality. On television, Vladimir Putin speaks of the "reunification" of Crimea and Russia, the Ukrainian president makes unconvincing promises about a united Ukraine, while American politicians are divided over the fear of immigration. Nadia internalizes notions of "union" all around her, but the one reunion she has been waiting six years for - with her beloved daughter - is being eternally delayed by the Department of Homeland Security. When Nadia finds out that her daughter has lost access to the medicine she needs to survive, she takes matters into her own hands.

Mother Country is Irina Reyn's most emotionally complex, urgent novel yet. It is a story of mothers and daughters and, above all else, resilience.

©2019 Irina Reyn (P)2018 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.
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This beautifully and tightly crafted novel holds special meaning for our time. So glad I chose to listen rather than read. Kathleen Gati’s narration draws one into the story line like an extended family member.

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