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The Mercy Rule

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At first glance, Dr. LucyWeiss looks like a typical high-achieving, upper-middle-class working mother who is raising two children in the suburbs with her husband. But having overcome a difficult childhood in foster care, Lucy knows firsthand what it is like to grow up in the margins. Now a pediatrician, she finds herself working with at-risk patients and their families. Every day she must decide whether a parent's actions are so incompetent ? or so clueless ? that a child is in danger. As she moves between her disparate worlds ? from worrying about her own daughter enduring the social pressures of adolescence to worrying about parents struggling with drugs and impossible living situations ? Lucy must judge herself as a parent, critique other parents, and also deal with the echoes of her childhood.Through it all, she keeps the balance with humor and sympathy. The Mercy Rule is a compassionate and funny novel sure to resonate with those who know the joys and challenges of taking care of children.

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  • Sprog:
  • Engelsk
  • ISBN:
  • 9780547237848
  • Indbinding:
  • Paperback
  • Sideantal:
  • 286
  • Udgivet:
  • 1. juli 2009
  • Størrelse:
  • 133x17x203 mm.
  • Vægt:
  • 363 g.
  • BLACK NOVEMBER
Leveringstid: 8-11 hverdage
Forventet levering: 21. november 2024

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At first glance, Dr. LucyWeiss looks like a typical high-achieving, upper-middle-class working mother who is raising two children in the suburbs with her husband. But having overcome a difficult childhood in foster care, Lucy knows firsthand what it is like to grow up in the margins. Now a pediatrician, she finds herself working with at-risk patients and their families. Every day she must decide whether a parent's actions are so incompetent ? or so clueless ? that a child is in danger. As she moves between her disparate worlds ? from worrying about her own daughter enduring the social pressures of adolescence to worrying about parents struggling with drugs and impossible living situations ? Lucy must judge herself as a parent, critique other parents, and also deal with the echoes of her childhood.Through it all, she keeps the balance with humor and sympathy. The Mercy Rule is a compassionate and funny novel sure to resonate with those who know the joys and challenges of taking care of children.

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