Friday 8 May 2015
Cradled Dreams by Beverly Hoffman
Release Date: 24th April 2013
Pages: 267
As her family gathers for
Thanksgiving, Georgie's heartbreak is hard to conceal. After years of pursuing
her dreams of motherhood, she has recently learned that her last option to
conceive has failed. Grim amid the festive holiday celebrations, Georgie feels
that she has little reason to give thanks.
Her sister-in-law, Robin,
desperate to ease Georgie's suffering, struggles for a way to help. On loving
impulse, she offers a solution-surrogacy.
Flush with excitement,
neither woman can predict how her life will change. But each is comforted by
the knowledge that her love for the other will guide the way. Soon, after in
vitro using a relative's sperm and her own egg, Robin shares the joyous news
that she is pregnant. Every conversation sparkles with her private joy at the
gift she could give her sister-in-law. But she encounters unexpected criticism
when discussing the plan with others. She must now deal with judgment and
questions about ethics. Relationships are strained. Both must pay emotional
costs they never anticipated. Soon, questions they never asked begin to haunt
them both.
Where do boundaries of
possibility meet long-term responsibility? Under what circumstances does
science need to pause to consider moral outcomes? When organs and tiny bones
grow in spite of circumstances never seen in nature, where does motherhood
begin and end?
And
most haunting of all is the question Robin couldn't ask herself on that first
day: Will she really be able to give up the child for the sake of Georgie's
dream?
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