TY  - BOOK
AU  - Savage,Angela
TI  - Mother of pearl
SN  - 1925760359
U1  - A823.4 23
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Melbourne
PB  - Transit Lounge
KW  - Motherhood
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Families
KW  - Australia
KW  - Mothers and sons
KW  - Thailand
KW  - Fertilization in vitro, Human
KW  - Women philanthropists
KW  - Childlessness
KW  - Single mothers
KW  - Intercountry adoption
KW  - Interpersonal relations
KW  - Infertility
KW  - Women
KW  - Adoption
KW  - fast
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Australian fiction
KW  - Domestic fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Psychological fiction
N2  - 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
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