Book Review & Book Tour Giveaway
When Love Transcends All
About The Book
On a business trip, a high-powered fifty-six-year-old American entrepreneur visits his partners in China. After their meeting, his Asian mentor invites him to an orphanage, a trip that will change the course of his family’s life forever. Without hesitation, he and his wife fall in love with Anglo/Asian twin girls and become their adoptive parents. The children grow up in a world of twists and turns with multiple coincidences and synchronicity. Their journey takes them from China to Europe to America and back to China where their unusual birth mother enters their lives. This powerful story is filled with drama at every turn as the daughters face internal and external challenges. The Birth Mother is a story filled with love, pathos, tragedy, and triumph. Read, laugh, cry, and learn. It’s a tale you will never forget.
- Title: The Birth Mother
- Author: Seymour Ubell
- Category: Adult Fiction (18 +),
- Hardcover & Paperback: 338 pages
- Genre: Literary Fiction
- Publisher: Archway (September 17, 2019}
- Content Rating: PG-13 + M: There is a rape scene that does not go into graphic detail, but the after-effects are talked about and it may be a trigger for some. Deals with birth and babies. Mild language
- Author: Seymour Ubell
My Thoughts
The unique way the book starts out had me on my toes, flipping from this page to that and rereading one particular statement. But in a short time, I caught on to the author’s sense of humor, or desire to create a very cute and different type of story.
The book covers so much regarding various cultures, families, women’s rights, religion, attitudes, and more. The characters and dialog feel very defined and believable. There are unique breaks in the story, that I will let you discover, that for me kept the book interesting.
If you haven’t picked this wonderful novel up yet, consider doing just that. What better way to start out the new year? A good book and a cup of coffee or tea are pretty hard to beat.
I received a free copy of this book from iREAD Book Tours in exchange for my honest review. I received no other compensation and the opinions expressed in this review are my own.
What Concerned Me
Nothing for me, but this could be a concern for some readers. I hinted earlier that I was a little taken off guard by the author’s humor, or just a wish to be a little different in his writing.
This story is written from the perspective of Daryl Landsman, a man who has hired the author (Seymour Ubell) to write about this experience.
I found it an interesting twist to the book, but there is a chance this might not work for every reader.
Conclusion
To be honest, the title and cover drew me to this book. Then, as I began reading, it flowed to create a captivating story. One that I kept wanting to know more about.
Though Seymour Ubell isn’t an author by profession, I think this book more than proves he’s an incredible writer and now author.
Don’t hesitate to add this book to your TBR list. I can’t imagine that you’ll be disappointed.
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Meet The Author
Seymour Ubell has spent most of his career in the print and advertising business. His clients are, and have been, the largest apparel, footwear, pharmaceutical, retail and consumer products companies in the world. He is a published author (A Life of Risks Taken, 2014 and The Birth Mother, 2019), lecturer, and raises funds for Parkinson’s research when he’s not at the theater with his wife, Marsha.
Q & A With Seymour Ubell
An interview with Author Seymour Ubell:
Seymour Ubell is not a professional author. In fact, he never went to college. His father died when Seymour was seventeen years old and he suddenly had to get a job and help support the family.
Seymour was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY. He has lived in Manhattan for the last 40 + years. He is the chairman of an American packaging companyM with offices in New York, China and Europe.
At eighty-eight, the author’s daily routine includes working out every other day at 7:AM in a local NYC gym, breakfasts with friends and arrives at his office each day around 10 am. By 3 pm he heads home to his wife and continues his research and writing. His weekends are spent enjoying the cultural arts of Manhattan, including the theater the Philharmonic, movies and his family.
He is currently writing two more novels. The first, almost complete historical novel about his family business which goes back to early 1880 with his great grandfather in the original family shop in Poland. And continues into 2019 in the USA and the rest of the world.
His other novel is entitled, Second Love. About people who divorce, lose their partners from a health problem, an accident or even suicide…and find a second act in love and togetherness.
1. What is your favorite travel spot?
Back to the old neighborhood in Brooklyn
2. If you could go back in time where would you go?
The birth date of each of my three children.
3. If you were stuck on a deserted island, which 3 books would you want with you?
The Good Earth, Gentleman in Moscow, Whiskey Rebels, Day of Atonement, The Coffee Trader
4. What’s the funniest thing that ever happened to you?
Michael Douglas, the actor, was sitting next to me at the Philharmonic. As we left the theater, he told me how pleased he was that no one bothered him in New York City…it was a great private visit. I turned to him and said, “Mike, look up at the balcony, there are two thousand people up there. Do you have any idea as to what they are saying as they see us?” He replied, “No, I do not.” I responded, “Each and everyone is saying, Who’s that guy with Seymour Ubell?” He almost fell over with laughter.
5. What was the scariest?
Getting married for the second time.
6. The strangest?
Getting married the first time.
7. What’s the most courageous thing you’ve ever done?
My most courageous experience was having a child at the age of 56 years old.
8. Any hobbies? or Name a quirky thing you like to do.
My new hobby is writing, reading and giving advice, welcomed or not. I love telling stories and jokes. When I hear a new joke, I can’t wait to repeat the story to my friends
9. If there is one thing you want readers to remember about you, what would it be?
I would like readers to remember about me, is I do not make up my stories. I write from actual experience and fictionalize it.
10. What is your favorite dessert
Ice cream (What flavor?)
Thank you so much for sharing this intriguing novel that is sure to make some reader’s TBR pile.
Yes, it’s certainly a good book!