Don't Let My Baby Do Rodeo

Maya was an adventurous Russian exchange student in America when she met the more earnest Alex, who had immigrated earlier with his parents. their uneasy marriage tames Maya's dreams of becoming a chef, and forces her to live in suffocating proximity to her overbearing in-laws. Unable to have children, Maya and Alex adopt an American baby. At eight years old, Max's behaviour becomes odd: he often disappears, talks to animals...

Convinced that the only way to help their feral son is to reconnect with his biological parents, Maya insists that the family drive to his native Montana, to understand the significance of the baby's mother's cryptic message.

The acclaimed author of A Replacement Life returns with another psychological tour de force: a beautifully nuanced and poignant novel about adoption, married love and a sense of belonging.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Boris Fishman was born in Minsk, Belarus, and immigrated to the United States in 1988 at nine. His journalism, essays and criticism have appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, The London Review of Books, the Guardian, and many other publications. His first novel, A Replacement Life, won the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award and the American Library Association's Sophie Brody Medal. He lives in New York.