The mothers a novel
Jesse and Ramon are a loving couple, but after years spent unsuccessfully trying to get pregnant, they turn to adoption, relieved to think that once they navigate the bureaucratic path to parent-hood they will have a happy ending. But nothing has prepared them for the labyrinthine process -- for the...
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2013.
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| Edition: | 1st Scribner hardcover ed. |
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| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The mothers : |b a novel / |c Jennifer Gilmore. |
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| 260 | |a New York : |b Scribner, |c 2013. | ||
| 300 | |a 277 p. ; |c 24 cm. | ||
| 520 | 0 | |a Jesse and Ramon are a loving couple, but after years spent unsuccessfully trying to get pregnant, they turn to adoption, relieved to think that once they navigate the bureaucratic path to parent-hood they will have a happy ending. But nothing has prepared them for the labyrinthine process -- for the many training sessions and approvals; for the constant advice from friends, strangers, and "experts"; for the birthmothers who contact them but don't ultimately choose them; or even, most shockingly, for the women who call claiming they've chosen Jesse and Ramon but who turn out never to have been pregnant in the first place--From Amazon.com. | |
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| 650 | 0 | |a Motherhood |v Fiction. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Adoption |v Fiction. | |
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