Jules Strauss is a Princeton senior with a full scholarship, acquaintances instead of friends, and a family sheβs ashamed to invite to Parentsβ Weekend. With the income sheβll receive from donating her βpedigreeβ 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 husbandβs salary, she thinks sheβs 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 Marcusβ daughter Bettina, intent on protecting her father, becomes convinced that his new wife is not what she seemsβ¦
With startling tenderness and laugh-out-loud humor, Jennifer Weiner once again takes readers into the heart of womenβs 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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