Mother of pearl /
Savage, Angela,
Mother of pearl / Angela Savage. - Melbourne : Transit Lounge, 2019. - 320 pages ; 24 cm.
A luminous and courageous story about the hopes and dreams we all have for our lives and relationships, and the often fraught and unexpected ways they may be realised. Angela Savage draws us masterfully into the lives of Anna, an aid worker trying to settle back into life in Australia after more than a decade in Southeast Asia; Meg, Anna?s sister, who holds out hope for a child despite seven fruitless years of IVF; Meg's husband Nate, and Mukda, a single mother in provincial Thailand who wants to do the right thing by her son and parents. The women and their families' lives become intimately intertwined in the unsettling and extraordinary process of trying to bring a child into the world across borders of class, culture and nationality.
1925760359 9781925760354
Motherhood--Fiction.
Families--Australia--Fiction.
Mothers and sons--Thailand--Fiction.
Fertilization in vitro, Human--Fiction.
Women philanthropists--Australia--Fiction.
Childlessness--Fiction.
Single mothers--Fiction.
Intercountry adoption--Fiction.
Interpersonal relations--Fiction.
Infertility--Fiction.
Women--Fiction.
Adoption.
Infertility.
Interpersonal relations.
Women.
Australia--Social life and customs--Fiction.
Australian fiction
Domestic fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Fiction.
A823.4
Mother of pearl / Angela Savage. - Melbourne : Transit Lounge, 2019. - 320 pages ; 24 cm.
A luminous and courageous story about the hopes and dreams we all have for our lives and relationships, and the often fraught and unexpected ways they may be realised. Angela Savage draws us masterfully into the lives of Anna, an aid worker trying to settle back into life in Australia after more than a decade in Southeast Asia; Meg, Anna?s sister, who holds out hope for a child despite seven fruitless years of IVF; Meg's husband Nate, and Mukda, a single mother in provincial Thailand who wants to do the right thing by her son and parents. The women and their families' lives become intimately intertwined in the unsettling and extraordinary process of trying to bring a child into the world across borders of class, culture and nationality.
1925760359 9781925760354
Motherhood--Fiction.
Families--Australia--Fiction.
Mothers and sons--Thailand--Fiction.
Fertilization in vitro, Human--Fiction.
Women philanthropists--Australia--Fiction.
Childlessness--Fiction.
Single mothers--Fiction.
Intercountry adoption--Fiction.
Interpersonal relations--Fiction.
Infertility--Fiction.
Women--Fiction.
Adoption.
Infertility.
Interpersonal relations.
Women.
Australia--Social life and customs--Fiction.
Australian fiction
Domestic fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Fiction.
A823.4