O Bebê de Alguém

About this book

Jenny Jaffe, a middle-class Jewish teenager living in a fancy area of Kansas City in 1959, begins a relationship with a gentile guy named Will McDonald, a drifter from California replete with tattoos, prison time, and a job pumping gas. Will's good looks and charming manner make him irresistible, and he represents the forbidden world Jenny's parents have kept her from. When Jenny becomes pregnant, she and Will plan to elope. Their plan is foiled by her parents, who have Will picked up for violating his parole. (Welcome to a version of "Secrets and Lies.") Jenny is then sent to a Catholic Home for Girls in California to have her baby and give it up for adoption. Three decades pass and the plot thickens. The child, Claudia, is now grown and has her own child and decides to find her birth parents. All the characters involved engage in some heavy introspection, making this saga somewhat melodramatic.Romance