Run

Run / Ann Patchett. – New York : HarperCollins Publishers, 2007.

295 p. ; 24 cm.

ISBN: 9780061340635

1. Boston (Mass.) – Fiction. 2. Domestic fiction. 3. Family secrets – Fiction. 4. Interracial adoption – Fiction. 5. Maternal deprivation – Fiction.

813.54

On a cold and snowy night in Boston, an adopted son of the former mayor is almost run over by an SUV. At the last moment he’s shoved out of its path by an unknown woman who is hit by the vehicle. In the hospital his family meets her family, an eleven-year-old girl who says that her mother is his birthmother.

Patchett tells a richly textured tale of family relationships, bereavement, spirituality, parental expectations and achievements that subtly juxtaposes economic divisions in American society.