A Fair Trade Book
Title: Babyland
Title: Babyland
Publisher: Kensington
Date: 2005
ISBN: 0-7582-0786-4
Length: 385 pages
Quote: “Life, as you know, is
deliciously uncertain.”
Anna Traulsen is 38 years old, has
never been married, has apparently never tried abstinence, and is
engaged to the perfect yuppie demographic match for her when, despite
having been “on the pill for years,” she tests positive for
pregnancy.
The next 380 pages consist of mostly
gynecological humor, as Anna realizes how unfit for fatherhood her
fiance would be, finds another fiance, and also discards one of her
friends. It's not what could be called an erotic novel, although
Anna's not about to start practicing abstinence. It is bluntly,
in-your-face, about all the
steps people take when they make babies, from flirting to shopping to
disgusting medical procedures. There's a stage in a girl's
adolescence when reading this novel might be a wholesome part of her
education, but before recommending Babyland I'd
recommend that adults know the book and their daughters very well.
Is it
funny? Well...I didn't
laugh. If, however, you don't merely think but feel that
if novelists show young women sleeping around like young men they
might as well show what happens when members of these demographics
sleep together, then Babyland might
offer you some of the comic wisdom you've been missing for so long.
Although, at the moment of writing, I'm using a computer that will open her web page, I'm not able to use the "Contact" page. It doesn't display an e-mail address; it tries to drag you into its own e-mail system. So it's not possible to notify Holly Chamberlin that Babyland is available here as a Fair Trade Book. When you send $5 per copy + $5 per package to either of the addresses in the box at the very bottom of the screen, we'll send Chamberlin or a charity of her choice $1. (Yes, you could send $15 for two books, and Chamberlin or her charity would get $2.)
Although, at the moment of writing, I'm using a computer that will open her web page, I'm not able to use the "Contact" page. It doesn't display an e-mail address; it tries to drag you into its own e-mail system. So it's not possible to notify Holly Chamberlin that Babyland is available here as a Fair Trade Book. When you send $5 per copy + $5 per package to either of the addresses in the box at the very bottom of the screen, we'll send Chamberlin or a charity of her choice $1. (Yes, you could send $15 for two books, and Chamberlin or her charity would get $2.)
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