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Cargando... Hold My Girl: A Novel (2023)por Charlene Carr
   Ninguno Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro.   ) shazjhb | Apr 12, 2024 |  Born after seven years of fertility treatments, Rose, nearing one year old, is Katherine Matheson’s miracle baby. After so much heartbreaking failure, Katherine is determined to be the perfect mother, ignoring the nagging worry that Rose, with her pale skin, looks nothing like her. Tess Sokolowski’s chance to have a child of her own ended on the day her daughter, conceived via IVF, was stillborn at 21 weeks, leading to an emergency hysterectomy. Alone and stuck in a dead end job, Tess numbs the pain of her losses with too much alcohol and indiscriminate sex. When news breaks that a nurse at an IVF clinic has confessed to switching the eggs of two women, the lives of Katherine and Tess are thrown into turmoil. Carr thoughtfully explores the moral and legal complexity the situation raises as Katherine and Tess both fight to claim Rose as their own. Katherine, and her husband Patrick, who is Rose’s biological father, argue that only they can provide Rose with a stable upbringing. She’ll have two loving parents, financial comfort, and a supportive extended family, though Katherine is worried that her race will count against them. Tess has biology, and her inability to have any more children, on her side, but divorced, estranged from her family, and with no savings, she can only hope it will be enough. Both Katherine and Tess are well portrayed with nuance, and compassion for their individual circumstances. I could find empathy for both of them, even when they were not behaving particularly well. I’d like to think I would be more generous than Katherine seems to be to Tess for the benefit of Rose, but it’s such a heartbreaking situation for which there is no perfect solution. Carr also touches on other sensitive issues including sexual assault, adultery, racism, and alcoholism, adding complexity to the debate. Hold My Girl is a provocative and poignant novel, well written and compelling. ( ) shelleyraec | May 10, 2023 | sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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HTML: Two women. Two eggs. One life-altering mistake. Katherine finally has it all. She's spent her entire life striving for perfectionobsessing over her spotless home, maintaining her pristine reputation, building her perfect familyand her hard work has finally paid off. After seven difficult years of trying (and failing) to conceive, Katherine gives birth to Rose, her IVF miracle child, and at last has the one thing she's wanted most of all. But one thing isn't quite perfect. Rose's pale skin doesn't match Katherine's complexion, and an irritating doubt begins to grow in Katherine's mind. Tess never got the happy ending she wanted. She underwent IVF at the same clinic as Katherine, but after finally conceiving, Tess's daughter was stillborn. Now, nearly one year later, she's approaching rock bottom. Consumed by her grief and without hope for the future, Tess is divorced, broke, and stuck in a dead-end job beneath her skillset. But shortly before Rose's first birthday, Katherine and Tess get a call from the fertility clinic: Their eggs were switched. As Katherine's carefully planned life begins to crumble around her, Tess finally sees the glimmer of hope she needed to get her life back on track. Motherhood has always been their dream, and neither woman is prepared to share that claim over Rose. It will take a tense custody battle to decide who deserves to be Rose's mother, but it will also push them to the brink. With themes of racial identity, loss, and betrayal, Hold My Girl is an emotional novel that will leave you contemplating: What makes a mother? .No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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