More Than It Hurts You

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Josh Goldin's happy yet unexamined existence is shattered one morning when his wife, Dori, rushes their eight-month- old son to the emergency room in severe distress. Dr. Darlene Stokes, an African-American physician and single mother, suspects Munchausen by proxy, a rarely diagnosed and controversial phenomenon where a mother intentionally harms her baby. As each of them is forced to confront a reality that has become a nightmare, Darlene, Dori, and Josh are pushed to their breaking points.

Darin Strauss's extraordinary novel is set in a world turned upside down-where doctors try to save babies from their parents, police use the law to tear families apart, and the people you think you know best end up surprising you the most.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Plume Books
Published: 06/01/2009
ISBN: 9780452295520
Pages: 416
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 7.78h x 5.62w x 0.85d

Review Citations: Entertainment Weekly 07/17/2009 pg. 59
New York Times Book Review 08/16/2009 pg. 20