Every Kind of Wanting explores the complex intersection of three unique families. Miguel Guerra, who grew up in poverty in Venezuela before his familys relocation to Chicago, could not be more different from his partner Chad Merry, a happy-go-lucky real estate mogul from Chicagos wealthy North Shore. When Chads sister, Gretchenstruggling with the deterioration of her marriageoffers the couple her eggs, they begin scrambling for a surrogate to carry the child, finally settling on Miguels old friend Emily, happily married to an eccentric Irish playwright, Nick, with whom she is raising two boys.Caught in the crossfires of these three families bustling efforts to have their Community Baby is Miguels younger sister, Lina, a former addict and stripper, whose needs and wants make her seem only peripheral to the surrogacy. Lina serves as the novels overarching narrator as she falls into a passionate affair with Nick while deciphering the mysteries of her past. Though the novels timeline is framed by the nine months of the surrogacy, it also reaches back thirty years, to Miguels childhood in Venezuela and the unsolved murder of his father.
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Аудиокнигу читает: Almarie Guerra
На Zvooq-Knigi.ru: с 19.05.2020
