Don`t Let My Baby Do Rodeo

You`re the mother. You will raise him as you see fit. But I want to ask you for one thing... Please don`t let my baby do rodeo.Eight year old Max has gone missing. Again. His behaviour is a mystery to Maya and Alex, his Russian immigrant parents who adopted him as a baby in America. He has started wandering away from home, talking to wild animals, eating grass, and refusing to sleep in a bed. Can they really raise this feral child?Their uneasy marriage has tamed Maya`s free spirit - but when Max is found after his most recent disappearance, she insists that they all drive from New Jersey to the boy`s native Montana, to reconnect with his biological family. Maybe it will help them understand his mother`s cryptic message?Don`t Let My Baby Do Rodeo is a beautifully nuanced and poignant novel about adoption, married love, and what it means to truly belong.