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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 was 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 is 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. At once a salvation and a mystery to his parents with whom Max s biological mother left the child, with the cryptic exhortation don t let my baby do rodeo Max suddenly turns feral, consorting with wild animals, eating grass, and running away to sit facedown in a river.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.Praise for A Replacement Life Boris Fishman s first novel, A Replacement Life, is bold, ambitious, and wickedly smart. . . . The only problem with this novel is that its covers are too close together. . . . Undoubtedly, comparisons will be made to Bellow and the Roths (Henry and Philip), as well as to . . . Bernard Malamud. Patricia T. O Conner, New York Times Book Review Fishman, like his protagonist, is a born storyteller with a tremendous gift for language on all brow levels, making for a captivating and rare first novel that is tender, learned, funny, and deeply soulful frequently all at the same time. San Francisco Chronicle Fishman s firm yet light authorial hand, his gift for character and plot development, and his searing use of the English language belie his youth and his novice-novelist status. His witty dialogue and wry, believable descriptions leaven the dark, dense bread of the tale. Chicago Tribune An ingenious debut. . . . The novel is often very funny, but its most rewarding moments come as Slava, listening to the war stories of . . . elderly strangers, finds himself drawing closer to the grandmother whose secrets once seemed lost to him. New Yorker Powerful yet tender . . . real and vibrant. . . . Fishman never loses the reader s trust. No line in this book rings false, no character is unheard, no event seems like a plot device. Newsweek"