Being Lara
By: Lola Jaye
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: William Morrow
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9780062069344
Subjects: Birthmothers; Individual differences; Racism; Fiction; Life change events; Adoption; Obsessive-compulsive disorder; Mothers and daughters; Adopted children; Interracial adoption
Description: "Lara Reid knew she was an alien. What other explanation could there be? With her dark complexion and kinky hair, so unlike her fair-skinned parents, Lara knew she was different. At eight she finally learned the word 'adopted'. Twenty-two years later, a stranger arrives as she blows out the candles on her thirtieth birthday cake; a woman in a blue-and-black head tie who also claims the title 'Lara's mother'. Lara, always in control, now finds her life slipping free of the stranglehold she's had on it. Unexpected, dangerously unfamiliar emotions are turning Lara's life upside down, pulling her between Nigeria and London, forcing her to confront the truth about her past. But if she's brave enough to embrace the lives of her two mothers, she may discover once and for all what it truly means to be Lara." -- Provided by publisher.