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Hold my girl : a novel / Charlene Carr.

Carr, Charlene, (author.).

Summary:

"A heart-wrenching novel about two women whose eggs are switched during IVF. Katherine is a woman full of obsessions. Everything clean, everything perfect, all the time. After seven years of trying--and failing--to conceive, she finally gives birth to Rose, her IVF miracle child. But she's afraid that Rose may not be her daughter; her pale skin doesn't match Katherine's own. Tess never got her happy ending. She took on IVF alongside Katherine and a group of hopeful mothers, but her daughter, Hanna, was stillborn. After a series of poor choices, she's divorced, broke and stuck in a job that's below her skill set. Ten months later, Katherine and Tess get a call from the fertility clinic that reveals shocking news: the two women's eggs were switched. While Katherine's perfect life beings to crumble around her, for Tess it's the glimmer of hope she needs to get her life back on track. But it will take a custody battle to decide who deserves to be Rose's mother, a battle that will push both women to the brink. With themes of racial identity, loss and betrayal, this emotional novel centred around a difficult moral question beautifully explores the complexities of motherhood."-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781443468336 (trade paperback)
  • Physical Description: 420 pages ; 23 cm
  • Edition: First Canadian edition.
  • Publisher: Toronto : HarperCollins Publishers Ltd., [2023]

Content descriptions

General Note:
Includes discussion questions.
Subject: African American women > Fiction.
Custody of children > Fiction.
Families > Fiction.
Fertilization in vitro, Human > Fiction.
Infertility > Fiction.
Women > Fiction.
Genre: Domestic fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Novels.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Lakeshore Branch FIC Carr 31681010308062 FICTIONPBK Available -

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250 . ‡aFirst Canadian edition.
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300 . ‡a420 pages ; ‡c23 cm
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338 . ‡avolume ‡bnc ‡2rdacarrier
500 . ‡aIncludes discussion questions.
520 . ‡a"A heart-wrenching novel about two women whose eggs are switched during IVF. Katherine is a woman full of obsessions. Everything clean, everything perfect, all the time. After seven years of trying--and failing--to conceive, she finally gives birth to Rose, her IVF miracle child. But she's afraid that Rose may not be her daughter; her pale skin doesn't match Katherine's own. Tess never got her happy ending. She took on IVF alongside Katherine and a group of hopeful mothers, but her daughter, Hanna, was stillborn. After a series of poor choices, she's divorced, broke and stuck in a job that's below her skill set. Ten months later, Katherine and Tess get a call from the fertility clinic that reveals shocking news: the two women's eggs were switched. While Katherine's perfect life beings to crumble around her, for Tess it's the glimmer of hope she needs to get her life back on track. But it will take a custody battle to decide who deserves to be Rose's mother, a battle that will push both women to the brink. With themes of racial identity, loss and betrayal, this emotional novel centred around a difficult moral question beautifully explores the complexities of motherhood."-- ‡cProvided by publisher.
591 . ‡bCanadian
650 0. ‡aAfrican American women ‡vFiction.
650 0. ‡aCustody of children ‡vFiction.
650 0. ‡aFamilies ‡vFiction.
650 0. ‡aFertilization in vitro, Human ‡vFiction.
650 0. ‡aInfertility ‡vFiction.
650 0. ‡aWomen ‡vFiction.
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