Jules Strauss is a Princeton senior with a full scholarship,
acquaintances instead of friends, and a family she’s ashamed
to invite to Parents’ Weekend. With the income she’ll
receive from donating her “pedigree” eggs, she believes she
can save her father from addiction.
Annie Barrow married her high school sweetheart and became
the mother to two boys. After years of staying at home and
struggling to support four people on her husband’s salary,
she thinks she’s found a way to recover a sense of purpose
and bring in some extra cash.
India Bishop, thirty-eight (really forty-three), has changed
everything about herself: her name, her face, her past. In
New York City, she falls for a wealthy older man, Marcus
Croft, and decides a baby will ensure a happy ending. When
her attempts at pregnancy fail, she turns to technology, and
Annie and Jules, to help make her dreams come true.
But each of their plans is thrown into disarray when Marcus’
daughter Bettina, intent on protecting her father, becomes
convinced that his new wife is not what she seems…
With startling tenderness and laugh-out-loud humor, Jennifer
Weiner once again takes readers into the heart of women’s
lives in an unforgettable, timely tale that interweaves
themes of class and entitlement, surrogacy and donorship,
the rights of a parent and the measure of motherhood.
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