Other people's children : a novel /
Hoffmann, R. J., 1969-
Other people's children : a novel / R.J. Hoffmann. - First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. - 376 pages ; 24 cm
"Gail and Jon Durbin moved to the Chicago suburbs to set up house as soon as Gail got pregnant. But then she miscarried - once, twice, three times. Determined to expand their family, the Durbins turn to adoption. When several adoptions fall through, Gail's desire for a child overwhelms her. Carli is a pregnant teenager from a blue-collar town nearby, with dreams of going to college and getting out of her mother's home. When she makes the gut-wrenching decision to give her baby up for adoption, she chooses the Durbins. But Carli's mother, Marla, has other plans for her grandbaby."--Publisher.
9781982159092 198215909X
2020031134
Adoption--Fiction.
Families--Fiction.
Infertility--Fiction.
Teenage mothers--Fiction.
Mothers--Fiction.
Chicago (Ill.)--Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Other people's children : a novel / R.J. Hoffmann. - First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. - 376 pages ; 24 cm
"Gail and Jon Durbin moved to the Chicago suburbs to set up house as soon as Gail got pregnant. But then she miscarried - once, twice, three times. Determined to expand their family, the Durbins turn to adoption. When several adoptions fall through, Gail's desire for a child overwhelms her. Carli is a pregnant teenager from a blue-collar town nearby, with dreams of going to college and getting out of her mother's home. When she makes the gut-wrenching decision to give her baby up for adoption, she chooses the Durbins. But Carli's mother, Marla, has other plans for her grandbaby."--Publisher.
9781982159092 198215909X
2020031134
Adoption--Fiction.
Families--Fiction.
Infertility--Fiction.
Teenage mothers--Fiction.
Mothers--Fiction.
Chicago (Ill.)--Fiction.
Domestic fiction.