In a Country of Mothers

A curious story. A young woman, Jody Goodman, goes to see a psychotherapist when she is feeling out of sorts and directionless. The therapist, Claire Roth, notices that Jody is the same age as the child she, Claire, had given up for adoption years ago. Thus begins a fixation, an idea. What if Jody is in fact her daughter?

Over time she intrudes more and more into Jody's life until...well, you'll have to read it.

I rather enjoyed it. Tried to find more than a thriller in it and I am not sure I succeeded. Nevertheless it captured my attention in a way that a thriller normally would not.

This book hit home with me, because of the adoption and identity issues. I rank it right up there with Dan Chaon's You Remind Me of Me as an accurate portrayal of the emotions swirling around the whole issue of adoption and birth parents.