Secrets My Mothers

By: Rebecca Tucker

21-year-old engineering student, Austin, discovers she’s adopted and struggles with her parents’ lies about her past, the search for her origins, and troubling questions surrounding her Jewish identity.

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Book Description

Austin Nobel is preparing for a summer trip to France, which includes obtaining a passport. However, when she receives her birth certificate in the mail with the wrong name on it, Austin uncovers that she was adopted, something her parents had kept secret from everyone.

Austin pursues more information about her birth parents and their complicated history against the wishes of her family, while struggling with the impact this revelation has on her status within the Reform Jewish community. Is she really Jewish in the eyes of her community? In her own eyes? As Austin searches for answers about her own complicated origins, she struggles to reclaim her identity and forgive those who betrayed her.

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