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 I'll Have Seconds, a high-end 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 ever-dwindling hope that she and her husband Jacob will
have a family of their own.
When socialite Evelyn Elliot charges into Nora's life, the women spark
an immediate connection, and Nora is jettisoned into the heady whirl of
New York's moneyed elite. As Evelyn's stylist and confidante, Nora needs
to learn all new rules of engagement for the uber-wealthy. But it isn't
until Evelyn decides her next cause is to carry a baby for Nora, that
these rules-- and this unlikely friendship--are 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 us--and what they're worth.
