The Sperm Donor's Daughter and Other Tales of Modern Family

by Kathryn Trueblood

Book Overview

Few revelations are more disturbing than those that meddle with our conceptions of identity. Not a tale that's been told before, this novella explores the complex human feelings that have been far outstripped by the pace of reproductive technology. When twenty-year-old Jess discovers that her mother has woven their family history from lies, she begins searching for her sperm donor daddy. In the Sixties, when Jess was born, it was still common practice...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1579620531
• ISBN13: 9781579620530
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Permanent Press (NY)
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 20 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

an endearing new look at what it means to be a family

This is a warm, intelligent novel which asks how importantbiology is to individual identity. It's a mother-daughter talewhich is also a belated coming-of-age novel focused on a pair of women who achieve their brand of wholeness through complexity. Enough alike to seem related, enough different to generate tension, they confront most of the basic questions we ought to think about when we mention family.