A married couple in California grapples with race betrayal love and loss when their son comes home from a Guatemalan orphanageampnbspContemporary art museum curator Julie Cowan achieves her dream of motherhood through adoption but her life is far from perfect Her pathologist husband Mark is distracted by his gorgeous young intern while her hotshot new museum director boss doubts Julieamprsquos curatorial chops And Julieamprsquos sixyearold son Jack born Juan may never recover from trauma inflicted by early life spent in a Guatemalan orphanageampnbspThen Jack suffers a major health crisis and everything pales next to saving his life As much as Julie clings to being Jackamprsquos ampldquoonlyamprdquo mother she needs to find his Guatemalan mother to unlock his medical history Julie hires a professional searcher and what she learns turns her world upside down At the same time Jackamprsquos birth mother an indigenous Ixil Maya navigates her own tumultuous path beginning with surviving a horrific massacreampnbspIn this gripping tale told from alternating perspectives both mothers must draw on fierce inner strength to reckon with their life choicesampnbsp
