Birth Power Book Club: Mother Country
This beautifully written book explores the collision of adoption and identity, motherhood and loss.
Mother Country by Jacinda Townsend is a novel about two women, Shannon and Souria, who are connected by a young girl they both claim as their own, and explores themes of motherhood, human trafficking, and privilege through their intertwined stories in Morocco and Kentucky.
Shannon, an African American woman, unofficially adopts a toddler in Marrakech, while the girl's birth mother, Souria, is a Mauritanian woman who escaped human trafficking.
The book, published in 2022, won the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence and delves into intergenerational trauma and the complexities of love and survival.
Purchase the Book HERE
This beautifully written book explores the collision of adoption and identity, motherhood and loss.
Mother Country by Jacinda Townsend is a novel about two women, Shannon and Souria, who are connected by a young girl they both claim as their own, and explores themes of motherhood, human trafficking, and privilege through their intertwined stories in Morocco and Kentucky.
Shannon, an African American woman, unofficially adopts a toddler in Marrakech, while the girl's birth mother, Souria, is a Mauritanian woman who escaped human trafficking.
The book, published in 2022, won the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence and delves into intergenerational trauma and the complexities of love and survival.
Purchase the Book HERE
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