Scissors, Paper, Stone: A Novel

By: Martha K. Davis

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Synopsis: This novel following a Korean adoptee, her white mother, and her best friend through two decades is &“an intense and compelling read . . . terrific&” (Kirkus Reviews). What is considered a family, and who gets to define it? In 1964, as racial tension simmers in America, Catherine and Jonathan adopt a baby girl from Korea. This unconventional choice brings disapproval from Catherine&’s family—which creates an even closer bond between her and her daughter. Narrated in alternating chapters by Catherine, her adopted daughter Min, and Min&’s best friend Laura, Scissors, Paper, Stone spans twenty years of love, loss, and the complex reality of female relationships. As Min grows up, we watch as she comes out as a lesbian and learns to embrace her heritage, and after she and Laura take a summer road trip together, the shifts in their friendship force all three women to examine the assumptions they&’ve been living by and to make choices about the roles they want to play in each other&’s lives. &“Davis writes with rare insight and compassion about the evolving American family and the struggle to belong . . . a wise and affecting novel.&” ―Hilma Wolitzer, author of An Available Man