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Evie, the baby and the wife : a novel
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- ISBN: 9781771331371
- ISBN: 1771331372
- ISBN: 9781771331357
- ISBN: 1771331356
- ISBN: 9781771331340
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Physical Description:
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1 online resource - Publisher: Toronto, Canada : Inanna Publications and Education Inc., [2014]
- Copyright: ©2014
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| Source of Description Note: | Online resource; title from READ title page (Overdrive, viewed February 18, 2015) |
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| Subject: | Jewish women -- Fiction Mothers and daughters -- Fiction Divorced women -- Fiction |
| Genre: | Electronic books. |
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Summary:
Evie Troy, an impulsive and funny young Jewish woman, has a tendency to overcomplicate things. And that can get her into trouble. When her dying friend Jean-Gabriel, a successful and controversial francophone writer, cons her into carrying out his last wish, delivering a monetary mea-culpa to his ex-wife Amelie, Evie decides she knows better. Jean-Gabriel is tainted by a successful play that bears the name of his former and much younger wife whom the public imagines is the inspiration for this play about marital strife. Evie's mother, Marilyn, hates what she thinks Jean-Gabriel stands for (i.e, older man who marries and emotionally betrays in a very public way an extremely young wife) and can't fathom her daughter's daft determination to saddle up her womb on spec. A whacky plot unfolds in which Jean-Gabriel dies and Evie inherits the job of giving his former wife, Amelie, his fortune without her knowing the source of the money. Evie decides what Amelie really needs is a baby, something she and Jean-Gabriel were unable to have, a plan she keeps so secret not even Amelie has an inkling a baby is headed her way. But will Amelie accept the baby they're offering up gift-wrapped? Played out against the backdrop of the fight for women's rights in Canada, Evie, the Baby and the Wife is the boisterous tale of a mother and daughter at odds, struggling to reconnect across a reproductive divide.
