EXPECTING is going to make you laugh out loud while you are flipping the pages and forget about doing anything else. You are going to finish EXPECTING in one day just like I did. I still can't believe EXPECTING is a debut novel. Ann Lewis Hamilton writes like she has written fifty novels already.
Laurie and Alan have been trying to get pregnant. They have had two miscarriages and they decide the way to go is artificial insemination. They are thrilled when Laurie gets pregnant, but then they learn that a fed up nurse tampered with things and the child is not Alan's, but from donor #296. Who the heck is Donor 296?
EXPECTING is written in third person perspective from three different points of view. Laurie, Alan, and Jack, the biological father of Laurie's baby. Each of the changes are clearly marked so it is easy to keep up with which character is currently narrating the story. Alan's chapters really broke my heart but at the same time, and I can understand the struggle he is going through. Poor Alan feels like he will not have any ties to the baby. Is Laurie going to want to be with Jack now that they have a baby together? Well, you are going to have to read EXPECTING to find out.
You can really feel Laurie and Alan's pain, but it doesn't overwhelm you. You sit there wondering if their marriage can survive something like this, and it makes you wonder what would you do in this situation. EXPECTING will stay with you long after you read the final page. All of the characters feel very real and after a few chapters they will feel like friends you have known for years. There are pages where I laughed and cried at the same time. EXPECTING is filled with so much humor, I was snorting with laughter, while being grateful I wasn't on a train or bus while reading it!
A mom, a dad, a baby...and another dad.
Laurie and Alan are expecting, again. After two
miscarriages, Laurie was afraid they'd never be able to have
a child. Now she's cautiously optimistic β the fertility
treatment worked, and things seem to be different this time
around. But she doesn't yet know how different.
Jack can't seem to catch a break β his parents are on his
case about graduating from college, he's somehow dating two
girls at once, and he has to find a way to pay back the
money he borrowed from his fraternity's party fund. The only
jobs he is qualified for barely pay enough to keep him in
beer money, but an ad for the local sperm bank gives Jack an
idea.
Laurie and Alan's joy is shattered when their doctor reveals
that Laurie was accidentally impregnated by sperm from a
donor rather than her husband. Who is Donor 296. And how
will their family change now that Donor 296 is inarguably
part of it?
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