Paula W. (Paula) reviewed on 8/11/2005 + 19 more book reviews

**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".

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