Author Catherine Becker's new book...
The Mother Road, A Black Market Baby's Search for Real
At nineteen, newly aware that she was a black-market baby and that the story of her adoption was a lie, Catherine gets on a motorcycle and rides away from her recessed, repressed, working-class neighborhood of row houses in 1980 Rust Belt Buffalo. Her story moves through the cultural landscapes of the Un-United States, from its countercultures to communities whose histories and experiences challenge the country’s familiar stories about itself. As she crosses the country, its myths and contradictions become inseparable from the questions of her own identity.
Irreverent, fierce, funny, and unexpectedly tender, The Mother Road is a memoir about the worlds we inherit and those we create, the search for love and belonging, and the elusive connection between where we came from and who we can be.
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