{"product_id":"dont-let-my-baby-do-rodeo-9780062384379","title":"Don't Let My Baby Do Rodeo","description":"\u003cp\u003eMaya Shulman and Alex Rubin met in 1992, when she was a Ukrainian exchange student with \"a devil in her head\" about becoming a chef instead of a medical worker, and he was the coddled son of Russian immigrants wanting a less predictable life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwenty years later, Maya Rubin is a medical worker in suburban New Jersey, and Alex is his father's second in the family business. The great dislocation of their lives is their eight-year-old son, Max--adopted from two teenagers in Montana despite Alex's view that \"adopted children are second-class.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt once a salvation and a mystery to his parents--with whom Max's biological mother left him with the cryptic exhortation, \"Don't let my baby do rodeo\"--Max suddenly turns feral, consorting with wild animals, eating grass, and running away to sit facedown in a river.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSearching for answers, Maya convinces Alex to embark on a cross-country trip to Montana to track down Max's birth parents. But it's Maya who's illuminated by the journey, her own erstwhile wildness summoned for a reckoning by the unsparing landscape, with seismic consequences for herself and her family.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harper Perennial\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/14\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780062384379\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.80h x 5.20w x 0.90d","brand":"Boris Fishman","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43448906318005,"sku":"9780062384379","price":16.14,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_8094e760-036f-44a5-a68b-fc22e974be41.jpg?v=1704214265","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/dont-let-my-baby-do-rodeo-9780062384379","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}