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![]() ![]() Much of what you need to know about Rumaan Alam’s supple novel, “ That Kind of Mother,” is compressed into that moment: its interest in chance and fate its characterization of Rebecca, a white woman, and her blind spots. Through Rebecca’s eyes, Priscilla is “black, solid, but somehow vague.” She smiles kindly at the expectant mom, who does not quite apologize, but does explain that “ ‘I wasn’t’-Rebecca breathed in again-‘watching.’ ” Rebecca is about to give birth to her son, Jacob, and the doctor has told her to walk, so she barrels around a corner and collides with an older hospital attendant pinning a pamphlet to a corkboard. ![]() Rebecca meets Priscilla when she literally knocks into her. ![]()
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