The Favor by Adele Griffin PAPERBACK 9781728282121

Adele Griffin

From National Book Award finalist Adele Griffin, an insightful and warmhearted story of two very different women who make an unexpected connection when one decides to carry a baby for the other. At Ill Have Seconds, a highend fairytale vintage dress shop in Manhattan, Nora Hammond loves nothing better than pairing a rare find with the perfect client. At home, Nora grapples with the bleaker reality of enormous debt, a tiny apartment, and everdwindling hope that she and her husband Jacob will have a family of their own. When socialite Evelyn Elliot charges into Noras life, the women spark an immediate connection, and Nora is jettisoned into the heady whirl of New Yorks moneyed elite. As Evelyns stylist and confidante, Nora needs to learn all new rules of engagement for the uberwealthy. But it isnt until Evelyn decides her next cause is to carry a baby for Nora, that these rules and this unlikely friendshipare tested. A contemporary story that celebrates alternative routes to family, The Favor is an incisive examination of what it means to long for a child and what relationships cost usand what theyre worth. | Adele Griffin Favor Paperback Book