num_pages: 277
description: Jesse and Ramon are a loving couple but after years spent unsuccessfully trying to get pregnant they turn to adoption relieved to think that once they navigate the bureaucratic path to parent-hood they will have a happy ending. But nothing has prepared them for the labyrinthine processfor the many training sessions and approvals; for the constant advice from friends strangers and experts; for the birthmothers who contact them but dont ultimately choose them; or even most shockingly for the women who call claiming theyve chosen Jesse and Ramon but who turn out never to have been pregnant in the first place.
language: English
title: The Mothers
publisher: Scribner