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Expecting Miracles
It’s New York City, 1980 and Nelly Diamond’s slumbering maternal instinct awakens with a vengeance. A successful executive in her thirties who has delayed motherhood until "later”, she suddenly confronts the realization that, for her, it may be too late.
Increasingly obsessed with having a child, she submits herself to infertility workups, adoption agencies, step motherhood and even a little kidnapping all with frustratingly unfruitful, riotously funny and sometime heartbreaking results.
As Nelly fumbles from none predicament to another along her wayward, wisecracking route toward maternity, her breezy, sophisticated story will charm you, both for its insightful evocation of a generation's emerging dilemma and for its touching portrait of a thoroughly engaging woman who strives against all odds.
Increasingly obsessed with having a child, she submits herself to infertility workups, adoption agencies, step motherhood and even a little kidnapping all with frustratingly unfruitful, riotously funny and sometime heartbreaking results.
As Nelly fumbles from none predicament to another along her wayward, wisecracking route toward maternity, her breezy, sophisticated story will charm you, both for its insightful evocation of a generation's emerging dilemma and for its touching portrait of a thoroughly engaging woman who strives against all odds.
279 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 1980
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October 28, 2010
I shouldn't have expect more from this old book, but I did. This book was boring and slow. The main character was off her rocker.
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