This book was funny in places, and is an easy read. The main character's experience as a surrogate mother evokes empathy and a few laughs.
**From the inside cover** Trudy Herring is an earth angel bumbling through her beloved San Antonio using a kaleidoscope for a compass. At thirty-eight years of age, Trudy is a permanent temporary worker trying to finance her "oddjects d'art":Tortilla Goddesses, Varmints-A-Go_Go, HunaHydes. All that changes when she agrees to incubabe a child for Hillary and Victor Goettler, a glamorous, overachieving young residents of the famed Schier mansion. While Hilary basks in the knowledge that parenthood is simply a "time management problem," Trudy is forced to consume noxiously healthful meals in a home where the decor changes faster thatn Neiman-Marcus window display. As her body warms to the other life inside, Trudy begins to crave all that she has been denied: gooey, sweet coconut cany bars; Aurelia gojon, her best friend from Our Lady of sorrows; a real mother. But most of all, Trudy longs for her old flame, Sinclair Coker, a freelance mystic with a lot of enthusiasm for the carnal. The quest to satisfy her cravings leads Trudy through a San Angtonio of memory, regret, and revelation. Along the way she discovers that it takes a lot more than war stores about childbirth and potty training for a woman to qualify for true membership in "the mommy club".
Quick read - funny, sweet and satisfying. I loved her latest book, so I am going back and reading all her others. This one is hilarious - especially if you are or recently have been preganat. Trudy's artwork is also witty, imaginative and funny - she is a GREAT character.
Trudy offers to be a surrogate mother only to find out she wants to keep the baby when she actually gets pregnant. The couple moves her into their house and the mom to be makes her eat healthy food. Trudy finds and wants to get back with her ex also and needs to figure out what it is she wants, regardless of the consequences.
