The Paternity Test: A Novel
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| Rating | : | 4.78 (763 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 029929000X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 284 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-06-26 |
| Language | : | English |
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He lives in Boston, Massachusetts. He is a core faculty member in Lesley University's MFA program in creative writing. Michael Lowenthal is author of three previous novels: The Same Embrace, Avoidance, and Charity Girl, which was a New York Times Book Review Editors Choice title, a Washington Post Top Fiction of 2007 selection, and a Book Sense Top Tw
A Lilac Wolf and Stuff Review This book is full of flavor. You feel their excitement at having a baby, but as you get in deeper and understand the relationship these men havewell, it's less black and white. I thought it was a brilliant portrayal about how our motivations aren't always so simple.In the opening of the description it talks about the cliche, "having a baby to save the marriage." And that is what all their friends think is going on. And really, it kind of is. For one of them. For the other, it's ab. The Paternity Test The Paternity Test, Michael Lowenthal's fourth novel, could not be more contemporary in both style and subject. The story of a gay couple's erstwhile attempt to start a family, it is written in breezy shorthand prose--and ideal melding of form and function--whose charming voice and swift pacing immediately draw the reader in and propel him along. But the author is after more than merely holding up a mirror to today's gay culture as the novel asks difficult questions about the myri. Jodi Chapters said A baby at any cost.. The Paternity Test**May contain spoilers**Michael Lowenthal has created an emotionally compelling read sharing the determination that drives a childless couple longing for a family. With several LGBT couples in my life who have experienced the often frustrating road to having a child of their own, I was immediately drawn to the book having read the synopsis. I found myself captivated by the depth of emotion Lowenthal has written into his characters bringing them to life fromFade i
A searingly honest portrait of love under fire, a fearless exploration of what it means to be an adult, a couple, a family. It is a story for our time.------Jennifer Haigh, author of FaithSo many different relationships are put to the test in Michael Lowenthal's thought-provoking novel not only the bond at the heart of the book between two gay men and the Brazilian woman acting as their surrogate mother, but also the bond between husbands and wives, between siblings, between aging parents and their adult children. --Stephen McCauley, author of Insignificant Others.
The Paternity Test is a provocative look at the new “family values.". Gradually, Pat and Debora bond, drawn together by the logistics of getting pregnant and away from their spouses. Having a baby to save a marriage—it’s the oldest of clichés. Yearning for a baby and a deeper commitment, he pressures Stu to move from Manhattan to Cape Cod, to the cottage where Pat spent boyhood summers. As they struggle to adjust to their new life, they enlist a surrogate: Debora, a charismatic Brazilian immigrant, married to Danny, an American carpenter. Pat gets caught between loyalties—to Stu and his family, to Debora, to his own potent desires—and wonders: is he fit to be a father? In one of the first novels to explore the experience of gay men seeking a child through surrogacy, Michael Lowenthal writes passionately about marriages and mistakes, loyalty and betrayal, and about how our drive to create families can complicate the ones we already have. A decade into his relationship with Stu, an airline pilot from a