Author: David Bergen

I picked this book off the shelf at the Library because I had read his previous novel, The Time in Between. I don’t remember the storyline of that book, and even though I looked it up online the review didn’t spark my memory at all (perhaps I’ll have to read it again).

In this novel, Iso is a young Guatemalan woman who works in a fertility clinic in the highlands. When an affair with an American doctor leads to her pregnancy she hopes they will have a happy life together. But when the doctor is in an accident and has a devastating brain injury she realizes this won’t be possible. When her child is born the wife of the doctor takes the baby, without consent, to America.

The story tells of Iso’s struggle to regain custody of her child.

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