Perfect Life
336 pages
|Published: 3 Apr 2009
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ISBN: 9780393069501
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publication date: 3 April 2009
Description
Two years ago, Neil Banks walked into a bathroom in the Pacific Fertility Center to provide his former college girlfriend, Jenny Callahan, with the biological material needed to conceive a child. Becoming a father was not part of the deal: adrift in his postmodern Los Angeles lifestyle, he signed away all paternity rights. But on the day of the baby's christening, Neil turns up at the church. His unexpected and unauthorized return to Jenny's privileged East Coast world sends a shockwave through the families of Jenny and her two college roommates and sets off this deeply funny and keenly observed novel about fertility, love, and American excess.
