What Was Mine: A Novel
- Author: Helen Klein Ross
- Narrator: Julia Whelan
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster
- Duration: 8:42:57
Synopsis
Simply told but deeply affecting, in the bestselling tradition of Alice McDermott and Tom Perrotta, this urgent novel unravels the heartrending yet unsentimental tale of a woman who kidnaps a baby in a superstore—and gets away with it for twenty-one years.
Lucy Wakefield is a seemingly ordinary woman who does something extraordinary in a desperate moment: she takes a baby girl from a shopping cart and raises her as her own. It’s a secret she manages to keep for over two decades—from her daughter, the babysitter who helped raise her, family, coworkers, and friends.
When Lucy’s now-grown daughter Mia discovers the devastating truth of her origins, she is overwhelmed by confusion and anger and determines not to speak again to the mother who raised her. She reaches out to her birth mother for a tearful reunion, and Lucy is forced to flee to China to avoid prosecution. What follows is a ripple effect that alters the lives of many and challenges our understanding of the very meaning of motherhood.
Author Helen Klein Ross, whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, weaves a powerful story of upheaval and resilience told from the alternating perspectives of Lucy, Mia, Mia’s birth mother, and others intimately involved in the kidnapping. What Was Mine is a compelling tale of motherhood and loss, of grief and hope, and the life-shattering effects of a single, irrevocable moment.
Chapters
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WhatWasMine 001 Title
Duration: 45s -
WhatWasMine 002 CelticLullaby
Duration: 40s -
WhatWasMine 003 Part1 Ch1 Lucy
Duration: 14min -
WhatWasMine 004 Ch2 Warren
Duration: 04min -
WhatWasMine 005 Ch3 Lucy
Duration: 10min -
WhatWasMine 006 Ch4 Lucy
Duration: 06min -
WhatWasMine 007 Ch5 Jasmine
Duration: 01min -
WhatWasMine 008 Ch6 Marilyn
Duration: 10min -
WhatWasMine 009 Ch7 Charu
Duration: 02min -
WhatWasMine 010 Ch8 Marilyn
Duration: 03min -
WhatWasMine 011 Ch9 Marilyn
Duration: 03min -
WhatWasMine 012 Ch10 Lucy
Duration: 18min -
WhatWasMine 013 Ch11 Marilyn
Duration: 03min -
WhatWasMine 014 Ch12 Lucy
Duration: 13min -
WhatWasMine 015 Ch13 Marilyn
Duration: 01min -
WhatWasMine 016 Ch14 Lucy
Duration: 05min -
WhatWasMine 017 Ch15 Lucy
Duration: 11min -
WhatWasMine 018 Ch16 Marilyn
Duration: 06min -
WhatWasMine 019 Ch17 Cheryl
Duration: 01min -
WhatWasMine 020 Ch18 Lucy
Duration: 05min