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Permanent Press
July 2007
On Sale: June 30, 2007
248 pages
ISBN: 1579621511
EAN: 9781579621513
Hardcover
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Women's Fiction
Five women, friends at college, find their interlocking
relationships strained when one of them, in her late
thirties decides to have a second trimester abortion after
delaying the decision in hopes that her husband will
change his mind. The novel records the voices of her four
friends as they struggle to bridge the gap between what
they think they should feel and what they discover they do
feel. The friends are Nan, an obstetric nurse; Anastasia,
a businesswoman; Jean, a former social worker; and
Virginia, a community college professor. These women have
all wrestled with and are still engaged by the questions
of careers vs motherhood, marriage vs divorce, and
pregnancy vs abortion. These are the issues that lie at
the heart of this novel and make it so relevant for so
many women. In The Baby Lottery, women's lives contrast
painfully and inevitably: one woman has repeated
miscarriages; another has an abortion; one woman chooses
to remain single; another stays married for security.
Ultimately, like Nan, the reader may see why some
friendships deteriorate and others prevail.
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