![]() ![]() Rebecca, the white protagonist of his second novel, That Kind of Mother (2018), struggles through her own pregnancy and early motherhood before abruptly adopting the son of her Black nanny, who dies during childbirth. Rich and Pretty (2016), his debut, chronicles the friendship between Sarah and Lauren, two upper-middle-class white women, from high school through college, first jobs, marriage and baby (for one), and career (for the other). Her joke reflected her incredulity at his first two novels, which concern themselves exclusively with the circumstances of women’s lives. “Are you actually a woman?” the magazine editor Chloe Schama asked Rumaan Alam a few years ago during an interview for Vogue. Rumaan Alam illustration by Johnalynn Holland ![]()
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