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Chosen, September 2010
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HarperCollins
September 2010
On Sale: August 24, 2010
320 pages
ISBN: 0061974293
EAN: 9780061974298
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n Chosen, a young caseworker becomes increasingly
entangled in the lives of adoptive and birth parents, with
devastating results. It all begins
with a fantasy: the caseworker in her "signing paperwork"
charcoal suit standing alongside beaming parents cradling
their adopted newborn, set against a fluorescent-lit
delivery-room backdrop. It's this blissful picture that
keeps Chloe Pinter, director of the Chosen Child's
domestic-adoption program, happy while juggling the high
demands of her boss and the incessant needs of both adoptive
and biological parents. But the very job that
offers her refuge from her turbulent personal life and
Portland's winter rains soon becomes a battleground
involving three very different couples: the Novas, well-off
college sweethearts who suffered fertility problems but are
now expecting their own baby; the McAdoos, a wealthy husband
and desperate wife for whom adoption is a last chance; and
Jason and Penny, an impoverished couple who have
nothing—except the baby everyone wants. When a child goes
missing, dreams dissolve into nightmares, and everyone is
forced to examine what he or she really wants and where it
all went wrong. Told from alternating points of
view, Chosen reveals the desperate nature of desire
across social backgrounds and how far people will go to get
the one thing they think will be the answer.
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