FROM THE BOOK JACKET: From National Book Award finalist Adele Griffin, an insightful and warmhearted story of two very different women who make an unexpected connection when one decides to carry a baby for the other.
At I'll Have Seconds, a high-end fairytale vintage dress shop in Manhattan, Nora Hammond loves nothing better than pairing a rare find with the perfect client.
At home, Nora grapples with the bleaker reality of enormous debt, a tiny apartment, and ever-dwindling hope that she and her husband Jacob will have a family of their own.
When socialite Evelyn Elliot charges into Nora's life, the women spark an immediate connection, and Nora is jettisoned into the heady whirl of New York's moneyed elite. As Evelyn's stylist and confidante, Nora needs to learn all new rules of engagement for the uber-wealthy. But it isn't until Evelyn decides her next cause is to carry a baby for Nora, that these rules--and this unlikely friendship--are tested.
A contemporary story that celebrates alternative routes to family, The Favor is an incisive examination of what it means to long for a child and what relationships cost us-and what they're worth.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Adele Griffin is a New Yorker who enjoys living in Los Angeles even if never snows here. She is the author of over thirty books across a variety of genres, including Sons of Liberty and Where I Want to Be, both National Book Award Finalists. She loves dog videos, bakery cakes, vintage everything, and writing about herself in third person.Read this book and join over 300,000 other readers with a free Library Online Book Club subscription
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