A review by scorpstar77
That Kind of Mother, by Rumaan Alam

4.0

Interesting rumination on a white mother to an adopted black son (and a biological white son) in the 1980s, and both her love for him and her complete blindness to what she doesn't know about being black in this world and her near-fetishization of his deceased mother (her former nanny) and his adult sister (to whom their family is close) without actually seeing them for who they are, as people. It's definitely a deserved criticism of wealthy white liberals who believe how not racist they are and their savior complex, though I would say the main character also gets the reader's sympathy - she's not someone you hate, but you're still uncomfortable with how obtuse she is.