Borrowed Child is the story we all need to read right now! With the grace and complexity of The White Album by Joan Didion, the novel Borrowed Child examines how intention and action, especially for white people, might misinterpret the complexities of race and power in the United States. Marguerite Welch brings deep thinking, personal experience, and incisive observations to this timely story of immigration and identity. With gorgeous writing, Welch subverts expectations and gifts us a nuanced view of prejudice. Through Helen and Mia, the question of who owns a story is interrogated through an intersectional lens; you won’t find a good-bad binary in this novel, but rather beautifully flawed characters with the courage to examine where they came from and where they hope to go with the support, forgiveness, and love of each other.

Melissa Scholes Young, author of Flood and The Hive