The Paternity Test: A Novel
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| Rating | : | 4.27 (872 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 029929000X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 284 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-05-25 |
| Language | : | English |
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But what if the marriage at risk is a gay one, and having a baby involves a surrogate mother? Pat Faunce is a faltering romantic, a former poetry major who now writes textbooks. Yearning for a baby and a deeper commitment, he pressures Stu to move from Manhattan to Cape Cod, to the cottage where Pat spent boyhood summers. As they struggle to adjust to their new life, they enlist a surrogate: Debora, a charismatic Brazilian immigrant, married to Danny, an American carpenter. Having a baby to save a marriage—it’s the oldest of clichés. Pat gets caught between loyalties—to Stu and his family, to Debora, to his own potent desires—and wonders: is he fit to be a father? In one of the first novels to explore the experience of gay men seeking a child through surrogacy, Michael Lowenthal writes passionately about marriages and mistakes, loyalty and betrayal, and about how our drive to create families can complicate the ones we already have. Gradually, Pat and Debora bond, drawn together by the logistics of getting pregnant and away from their spouses. A decade into his relationship with Stu, an airline pilot from a fraught Jewish family, he fears he’s losing Stu to other men—and losing himself in their “no rul
Michael Lowenthal is author of three previous novels: The Same Embrace, Avoidance, and Charity Girl, which was a New York Times Book Review Editors Choice title, a Washington Post Top Fiction of 2007 selection, and a Book Sense Top Twenty Pick. He lives in Boston, Massachusetts. H
A Lilac Wolf and Stuff Review This book is full of flavor. You feel their excitement at having a baby, but as you get in deeper and understand the relationship these men havewell, it's less black and white. I thought it was a brilliant portrayal about how our motivations aren't a. The Paternity Test Sweetpea The Paternity Test, Michael Lowenthal's fourth novel, could not be more contemporary in both style and subject. The story of a gay couple's erstwhile attempt to start a family, it is written in breezy shorthand prose--and ideal melding of form and fu. A baby at any cost. The Paternity Test**May contain spoilers**Michael Lowenthal has created an emotionally compelling read sharing the determination that drives a childless couple longing for a family. With several LGBT couples in my life who have experienced the often
The Paternity Test is a complex, emotionally satisfying, and thoroughly engaging story. A searingly honest portrait of love under fire, a fearless exploration of what it means to be an adult, a couple, a family. --Stephen McCauley, author of Insignificant Others. It is a story for our time.------Jennifer Haigh, author of FaithSo many different relationships are put to the test in Michael Lowenthal's thought-provoking novel not only the bond at the heart of the book between two gay men and the Brazilian woman acting as their surrogate mother, but also the bond between husbands and wives, between siblings, between aging parents and their adult children. Lowenthal writes with intelligence and passion and made me care a great deal about the fates of his flawed, fascinating characters. ------Tom Perrotta, author of The Leftovers and Little ChildrenA good, old-fashioned page-turner and a sophisticated look at the mysteries of long-term love and the conv