Don't let my baby do rodeo

By Boris Fishman

Subjects: Self-realization in women, Fiction, family life, general, Parent and child, Adopted children, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, Parent and child, fiction, Middle-aged women, Self-actualization (Psychology) in women

Description: When their adopted eight-year-old son Max suddenly turns feral, Maya Shulman convinces her husband, Alex, to embark on a cross-country trip to Montana to track down Max's birth parents, which results in unexpected consequences and life-altering changes.