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About A Blessed Event
2004

Best friends since childhood, Joanne and Darla are now embroiled in a predicament worthy of Solomon's wisdom. Perennial bad girl Joanne has agreed to carry a baby for infertile homebody Darla. The baby's father is Darla's husband, Cal. After a perplexing visit by Joanne, Darla wonders about everyone's role in these unorthodox circumstances, especially after Joanne, four months pregnant, drives her car into Darla's bedroom. The accident leaves Joanne severely brain damaged and in a coma; however, the baby survives. Now Darla must battle Joanne's estranged parents, first for Joanne's life, then for custody of the baby. As Cal, mysteriously, begins to distance himself from Darla and the tangled situation, Darla looks for answers to Joanne's inexplicable actions of that fateful night. Her search leads her to an old boyfriend whom Joanne had been confiding in and other family secrets Joanne had been hiding from Darla for their entire lives. Tight plotting, sympathetic characters, and intriguing moral issues will make this book a good choice for reading groups. Kaite Mediatore Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved