A house for happy mothers : a novel

ISBN: 9781503933316 (paperback) :
ISBN: 1503933318 (paperback)
Physical Description: print regular print 301 pages ; 21 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Seattle, Washington : Lake Union Publishing [2016]
Copyright: &copy;2016

Summary: In trendy Silicon Valley, Priya has everything she needs - a loving husband, a career, and a home - but the one thing she wants most is the child she's unable to have. In a Southern Indian village, Asha doesn't have much - raising two children in a tiny hut, she and her husband can barely keep a tin roof over their heads - but she wants a better education for her gifted son. Pressured by her family, Asha reluctantly checks into the Happy Mothers House: a baby farm where she can rent her only asset - her womb - to a childless couple overseas. To the dismay of friends and family, Priya places her faither in a woman she's never met to make her dreams of motherhood come true. Together, the two women discover the best and the worst that India's rising surrogacy industry has to offer, bridging continents and cultures to bring a new life into the world - and renewed hope to each other.