The big bang
Subtitle: a novel
By: Linda Joffe Hull
Publisher: Tyrus Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Blue Ash, Ohio
Language: eng
Number of pages: 319
ISBN-13: 9781440544156; 9781440545221
Subjects: Pregnant women; Fiction; Planned communities
Description: Melody Mountain Ranch is a gated, planned, suburban heaven for everyone but interior designer Hope Jordan. As Hope struggles through the letdown of several unsuccessful fertility treatments, her cul-de-sac neighbors Will Pierce-Cohn, a stay-at-home dad and community activist; Frank Griffin, a minister-cum-homeowners' board president; and Tim Trautman, a soon-to-be father of five, jockey for her attentions. When Hope has a few too many cocktails and inadvertently eat hash-laced brownies at the playground ribbon-cutting gala/Memorial Weekend poolside potluck, she falls into the arms of one of her three wannabe paramours. Maybe all three. She wakes up with only fleeting memories of the evening, and soon discovers that her dream of getting pregnant has become a crushing reality. With all eyes on her, Hope is forced to watch as the walls holding up her picture-perfect neighborhood begin to crumble.