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Don’t Let My Baby Do Rodeo

Boris Fishman, who burst on the scene in 2014 with his acclaimed debut novel A Replacement Life, returns to BookCourt for the release of his new novel Don’t Let My Baby Do Rodeo, the portrait of an unsettled marriage in the New Jersey suburbs.

About Don’t Let My Baby Do Rodeo:

Maya Shulman and Alex Rubin met in 1992, when she was a Ukrainian exchange student with “a devil in [her] head” about becoming a chef instead of a medical worker, and he the coddled son of Russian immigrants wanting to toe the water of a less predictable life.

Twenty years later, Maya Rubin is a medical worker in suburban New Jersey, and Alex his father’s second in the family business. The great dislocation of their lives is their eight-year-old son Max—adopted from two teenagers in Montana despite Alex’s view that “adopted children are second-class.”
Searching for answers, Maya convinces Alex to embark on a cross-country trip to Montana to track down Max’s birth parents—the first drive west of New Jersey of their American lives. But it’s Maya who’s illuminated by the journey, her own erstwhile wildness summoned for a reckoning by the unsparing landscape, with seismic consequences for herself and her family.

Don’t Let My Baby Do Rodeo is a novel about the mystery of inheritance and what exactly it means to belong.











When: Thu., Mar. 10, 2016 at 7:00 pm
Where: BookCourt
163 Court St., Brooklyn

Price: Free
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Boris Fishman, who burst on the scene in 2014 with his acclaimed debut novel A Replacement Life, returns to BookCourt for the release of his new novel Don’t Let My Baby Do Rodeo, the portrait of an unsettled marriage in the New Jersey suburbs.

About Don’t Let My Baby Do Rodeo:

Maya Shulman and Alex Rubin met in 1992, when she was a Ukrainian exchange student with “a devil in [her] head” about becoming a chef instead of a medical worker, and he the coddled son of Russian immigrants wanting to toe the water of a less predictable life.

Twenty years later, Maya Rubin is a medical worker in suburban New Jersey, and Alex his father’s second in the family business. The great dislocation of their lives is their eight-year-old son Max—adopted from two teenagers in Montana despite Alex’s view that “adopted children are second-class.”
Searching for answers, Maya convinces Alex to embark on a cross-country trip to Montana to track down Max’s birth parents—the first drive west of New Jersey of their American lives. But it’s Maya who’s illuminated by the journey, her own erstwhile wildness summoned for a reckoning by the unsparing landscape, with seismic consequences for herself and her family.

Don’t Let My Baby Do Rodeo is a novel about the mystery of inheritance and what exactly it means to belong.

Buy tickets/get more info now