The Gift [Kindle Edition]
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File Size: 590 KB
Print Length: 270 pages
Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
Language: English
ASIN: B00DAN3G6E
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Editorial Reviews
Review
"The Gift is a moving and beautifully rendered story about ambition, whether overt or oblique, thwarted or fulfilled. In precise and elegant prose, Rachel Newcomb explores the ethics of egg donation, campus politics, and marital conflict. A smart, complex book by a deeply empathetic writer."
- Laila Lalami, author of Secret Son and Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits
"Clear and relentless... this timely, stark, dead-on story nails two of our biggest contemporary dilemmas and brings into question the entire arrangement of marriage in a world wrenched by torrents of ambition amid doubts about the future that turn friends and even spouses into rungs on the ladder, or roadkill."
- Philip F. Deaver, author of Silent Retreats and How Men Pray
"This first novel is a tour-de-force. Beautifully written and acutely observed, The Gift brings to life the various entanglements surrounding the brave new world of Ivy League egg donation. But the book offers more, taking readers through the elite worlds of academia and assisted conception, as well as the hard-scrabble realities of southern poverty, the Moroccan Peace Corps, and contemporary Middle East politics. Suspenseful and compelling, The Gift is hard to put down."
- Marcia Inhorn, author of Reproductive Disruptions: Gender, Technology, and
Biopolitics in the New Millennium
About the Author
Rachel Newcomb is the author of a novel, The Gift, and Women of Fes: Ambiguities of Urban Life in Morocco. She writes for The Huffington Post and is a frequent contributor to Washington Post Book World. An anthropology professor at Rollins College, she also holds a master's degree in creative writing. Visit her website at rachelnewcomb.net.
"The Gift is a moving and beautifully rendered story about ambition, whether overt or oblique, thwarted or fulfilled. In precise and elegant prose, Rachel Newcomb explores the ethics of egg donation, campus politics, and marital conflict. A smart, complex book by a deeply empathetic writer."
- Laila Lalami, author of Secret Son and Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits
"Clear and relentless... this timely, stark, dead-on story nails two of our biggest contemporary dilemmas and brings into question the entire arrangement of marriage in a world wrenched by torrents of ambition amid doubts about the future that turn friends and even spouses into rungs on the ladder, or roadkill."
- Philip F. Deaver, author of Silent Retreats and How Men Pray
"This first novel is a tour-de-force. Beautifully written and acutely observed, The Gift brings to life the various entanglements surrounding the brave new world of Ivy League egg donation. But the book offers more, taking readers through the elite worlds of academia and assisted conception, as well as the hard-scrabble realities of southern poverty, the Moroccan Peace Corps, and contemporary Middle East politics. Suspenseful and compelling, The Gift is hard to put down."
- Marcia Inhorn, author of Reproductive Disruptions: Gender, Technology, and
Biopolitics in the New Millennium
Rachel Newcomb is the author of a novel, The Gift, and Women of Fes: Ambiguities of Urban Life in Morocco. She writes for The Huffington Post and is a frequent contributor to Washington Post Book World. An anthropology professor at Rollins College, she also holds a master's degree in creative writing. Visit her website at rachelnewcomb.net.
Product Title : The Gift [Kindle Edition]
