The Nearness of You A Novel
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Format
ePUB
Kopierschutz
Ja
Family Sharing
Ja
Text-to-Speech
Ja
Erscheinungsdatum
21.02.2017
Verlag
Random House Publishing GroupSeitenzahl
240 (Printausgabe)
Dateigröße
841 KB
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9781101887165
In this profound and lyrical novel, acclaimed author Amanda Eyre Ward explores the deeper meanings of motherhood-from the first blissful hello to the heart-wrenching prospect of saying goodbye.
Brilliant heart surgeon Suzette Kendall is stunned when Hyland, her husband of fifteen years, admits his yearning for a child. From the beginning they'd decided that having children was not an option, as Suzette feared passing along the genes that landed her mother in a mental institution. But Hyland proposes a different idea: a baby via surrogate.
Suzette agrees, and what follows is a whirlwind of candidate selection, hospital visits, and Suzette's doubts over whether she's made the right decision. A young woman named Dorothy Muscarello is chosen as the one who will help make this family complete. For Dorrie, surrogacy (and the money that comes with it) are her opportunity to leave behind a troubled past and create a future for herself-one full of possibility. But this situation also forces all three of them-Dorrie, Suzette, and Hyland-to face a devastating uncertainty that will reverberate in the years to come.
Beautifully shifting between perspectives, The Nearness of You deftly explores the connections we form, the families we create, and the love we hold most dear.
Advance praise for The Nearness of You
"[For] readers who like stories about competent people facing tough choices, like those from Jodi Picoult or Julie Lawson Timmer."-Booklist
"The Nearness of You includes everything I love about Amanda Eyre Ward's books: edgy eloquence, ingenious plotting, and relationships that are never, not for a single paragraph, simple or predictable. Through Suzette, Dorrie, Hyland, and Jayne, Ward reveals parenthood as an enterprise that is as wrenching as it is beautiful. You will love these characters and this book."-Marisa de los Santos, New York Times bestselling author of The Precious One
"Deftly paced and enthralling, Amanda Eyre Ward's The Nearness of You takes on the complexity of what it means to be a mother, and provides insights both heartening and harrowing."-Mira Jacob, author of The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing
"The Nearness of You is not just an arresting meditation on motherhood but also an exploration of how we can seize the lives we've been given and transform them into the lives we want to live. Like all of Ward's novels, this book's intrigue and charm demand that it be indulged in a single sitting."-Vendela Vida, author of The Diver's Clothes Lie Empty
Brilliant heart surgeon Suzette Kendall is stunned when Hyland, her husband of fifteen years, admits his yearning for a child. From the beginning they'd decided that having children was not an option, as Suzette feared passing along the genes that landed her mother in a mental institution. But Hyland proposes a different idea: a baby via surrogate.
Suzette agrees, and what follows is a whirlwind of candidate selection, hospital visits, and Suzette's doubts over whether she's made the right decision. A young woman named Dorothy Muscarello is chosen as the one who will help make this family complete. For Dorrie, surrogacy (and the money that comes with it) are her opportunity to leave behind a troubled past and create a future for herself-one full of possibility. But this situation also forces all three of them-Dorrie, Suzette, and Hyland-to face a devastating uncertainty that will reverberate in the years to come.
Beautifully shifting between perspectives, The Nearness of You deftly explores the connections we form, the families we create, and the love we hold most dear.
Advance praise for The Nearness of You
"[For] readers who like stories about competent people facing tough choices, like those from Jodi Picoult or Julie Lawson Timmer."-Booklist
"The Nearness of You includes everything I love about Amanda Eyre Ward's books: edgy eloquence, ingenious plotting, and relationships that are never, not for a single paragraph, simple or predictable. Through Suzette, Dorrie, Hyland, and Jayne, Ward reveals parenthood as an enterprise that is as wrenching as it is beautiful. You will love these characters and this book."-Marisa de los Santos, New York Times bestselling author of The Precious One
"Deftly paced and enthralling, Amanda Eyre Ward's The Nearness of You takes on the complexity of what it means to be a mother, and provides insights both heartening and harrowing."-Mira Jacob, author of The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing
"The Nearness of You is not just an arresting meditation on motherhood but also an exploration of how we can seize the lives we've been given and transform them into the lives we want to live. Like all of Ward's novels, this book's intrigue and charm demand that it be indulged in a single sitting."-Vendela Vida, author of The Diver's Clothes Lie Empty
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