Girls In Trouble - Tapa blanda

There is no denying this author's talents ((The New York Times Book Review))

Readers who wait impatiently for the next Jane Hamilton or Sue Miller novel will find another favorite in Caroline Leavitt ((Katharine Weber, author of The Music Lesson))

Leavitt's devotion to her central characters...gives the story a certain gravity ((The New Yorker))

Compelling. A likable, flowing explication of the complex relationship between mother and child, a bond that cannot be erased. ((The Chicago Tribune))

Thank God we live in modern times' Her mother had told her. 'When I was growing up there was a home for wayward girls right in my town. The Girls In Trouble House we called it, even though its name was just Saint Luke's. It was terribleYou went to a place like that and your life was over and everyone knew it.' For Sara, sixteen and pregnant, it still feels as if her life is over. Her once-devoted boyfriend seems to have disappeared, and her only option left is to have her baby adopted. She chooses George and Eva, an older couple desperate for a child. And, despite her mother's concerns, she opts for an open adoption, the chance to have a continued involvement in her child's life. But after the birth it's clear that Sara has a bond with her daughter that Eva can't seem to duplicate. And when Sara can't let go, Eva and George make a drastic decision with far-reaching consequences for all of them.