You Were Always Mine: A Novel

The acclaimed authors of the “emotional literary roller coaster” (The Washington Post) and Good Morning America Book Club pick We Are Not Like Them return with this moving and provocative novel about a Black woman who finds an abandoned white baby, sending her on a collision course with her past, her family, and a birth mother who doesn’t want to be found.

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336 pages

Average rating: 8.06

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jenlynerickson
Mar 13, 2024
10/10 stars
“What if a Black woman found a white baby…and kept it?” Cinnamon Haynes “found a baby in a park. A girl I barely know asked me to raise her child, and that baby got sick and went to the hospital and I worried she might die. Barely two weeks ago I didn’t own so much as a plant, and now I’m going to be a foster mom. You don’t think I know I’m over my head?” Christine Pride and Jo Piazza’s You Were Always Mine is “a provocative novel about a Black...read more
Chuckstafer
Feb 02, 2024
6/10 stars
The overall story was pretty good. I may be a little biased because my wife is a social worker, but the way that the authors tried to paint every social worker as inept or a bad person, or someone who didn't care about the kids was a little off-putting as well. I know that some are not the best, but they are so overworked that sometimes things don't go as smoothly as planned, but every social worker I have come across in my life is genuinely tryi...read more

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