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Three things matter to Vera: a friend at school, parents who stay together, and a meeting with Mom Mom, her birth mother — the one person who might explain who Vera really is, and how love survives a world coming apart.

Half-Jewish, half-Korean, wholly original, Vera watches everything and writes down every new word. What she watches is her family unraveling. The Bradford-Shmulkins are Russian, Jewish, Korean, and New England WASP at once, strained by an America losing its footing. Daddy chases money, his Russian roots newly valuable. Anne Mom, a broke Boston blue blood, keeps the house standing. Dylan, blond and Mayflower-descended, fits the new order effortlessly.

 

With a nod to What Maisie Knew, Vera, or Faith views family and nation through a child’s unclouded eyes.