Austin Boyd. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan, 2011. 332 pp. (Paperback).
“Just because we can … should we?” In this novel, award-winning author Austin Boyd deals with hard questions in a fictionalized format.
The story presents a young woman, desperate to find money for her father’s chemotherapy, who allowed her eggs to be harvested for donation to women seeking to become pregnant. Thinking the medical records had been sealed, Laura Ann was horrified when one of the recipients of her eggs tracked her down and was stunned by what happened afterward.
The book moves a bit slowly at first but gathers speed and drama as the story unfolds. By the middle of the book the reader is fully involved — drawn into a story that has a fairly predictable ending but takes unexpected twists and turns along the way.
Be sure to read the book when you have plenty of time; it is one of those vanishingly rare novels that is hard to put down.
The author, who has written several other successful books, is from Huntsville, Ala., where he is active in his church and in pro-life ministries.
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