DONT LET MY BABY DO RODEO

ISBN: 0062384376

Author: Fishman, Boris

Condition: New

Maya Shulman and Alex Rubin met in 1992, when she was a Ukrainian exchange student with a devil in her head about becoming a chef instead of a medical worker, and he was the coddled son of Russian immigrants wanting a less predictable life.Twenty years later, Maya Rubin is a medical worker in suburban New Jersey, and Alex is his fathers second in the family business. The great dislocation of their lives is their eight-year-old son, Max-adopted from two teenagers in Montana despite Alexs view that adopted children are second-class.At once a salvation and a mystery to his parents-with whom Maxs biological mother left him with the cryptic exhortation, Dont let my baby do rodeo-Max suddenly turns feral, consorting with wild animals, eating grass, and running away to sit facedown in a river.Searching for answers, Maya convinces Alex to embark on a cross-country trip to Montana to track down Maxs birth parents. But its Maya whos illuminated by the journey, her own erstwhile wildness summoned for a reckoning by the unsparing landscape, with seismic consequences for herself and her family.