This 2021 novel follows three storylines. Lila, a social worker in her forties, adopted as a child, is now trying to become a mother herself. Tess and Emily, a lesbian couple, pursued parenthood through sperm donation, but have since separated and are fighting over ownership and disposition of the embryos they created together. And Adam, […]
Kelp has always been a little different from the narwhals who raised him. His tusk is shorter. He’s not much of a swimmer. He finds the food disagreeable. But he loves his family, and his family loves him. Then one night a strong current carries him to the surface, where he encounters a herd of
Twelve-year-old Milo, a chess prodigy, has lost his passion for the game but is too afraid to tell his mom, his greatest supporter who’s always championed his talent. Instead, he intentionally throws a major tournament. Losing means he loses his chess camp scholarship for the summer. Milo’s mom then announces she and Milo will spend
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Set in 2009, The Making of Us follows three adults who were conceived anonymously via sperm donation in the UK and find each other through a donor sibling registry. Lydia, a wealthy self-made millionaire living alone in London who carries emotional scars from a traumatic childhood; Dean, a confused 21-year-old single father struggling after his
Tech millionaire Miles Cookson is diagnosed with a fatal, hereditary condition and realizes that the nine children he fathered as a sperm donor two decades earlier may have inherited it. Determined to warn them and include them in his estate, Miles sets out to find them. He connects first with Chloe, an aspiring documentary filmmaker
Paige Robson is a geneticist, professionally obsessed with the science of inheritance and, it turns out, personally entangled in it too. She conceived her 8-year-old son Miles using an anonymous sperm donor in the late 2000s. Now she’s navigating a new relationship, her estranged father who has reappeared, and a son whose questions about his
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Skye Ellison is 38, Black, queer, and has spent her adult life avoiding anything that might require her to stay in one place. She runs a successful travel company, lives out of a suitcase, and returns to her hometown of West Philly only occasionally to decompress before heading back out. When she was 26 and
Set at Lincoln High School in suburban California, Your Own Worst Enemy (2018) is a satirical YA novel about a student body presidential election that quickly turns into a mess of dirty tricks and identity politics. The story unfolds over two weeks, narrated through rotating perspectives. Stacey Wynn has done everything right. Running unopposed for
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Donor-conceived Quinn loves her two mums and brother Olly but often feels like the odd one out since she’s the only one with red hair and green eyes and would rather quietly draw than participate in her family’s favorite outdoor activities like surfing. When her mums reveal that she and Olly have sixteen donor siblings,
Twenty-three-year-old August moves to New York City to finish college, cynical and emotionally guarded. She moves into a Flatbush apartment with an eccentric found family: Niko (a trans psychic with genuinely accurate powers), his artist girlfriend Myla, and Wes (a tattoo artist). August works at a 24-hour pancake diner and plans to keep her life
