Mother Country

Mother Country
"Mother country" redirects here. For the concept of national identity, see Homeland.

Mother Country (2002) is a novel by Libby Purves about a young American computer expert who goes in search of the relatives of his biological mother, a teenage heroin addict in 1970s London when she had him who was pronounced an unfit mother and who died soon after giving birth to him. Raised by his paternal grandparents, the young man has never been to England again after being carried off to the United States by his father, who also died young.

Mother Country explores the culture clash between the two nations, drug addiction and rehabilitation, family secrets, and the will to move on in life.

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  • The protagonist of Bharati Mukherjee's novel Leave It to Me also tries to track down her biological parents.

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