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The Paternity Test (2012)

by Michael Lowenthal(Favorite Author)

3.43 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

029929000X (ISBN13: 9780299290009)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

University of Wisconsin Press

review 1: This book put me through a range of emotions, most of them negative: anger, disgust, and frustration, to name a few. After reading only a few chapters, I had come to the conclusion that none of these folks needed a child in their lives and that feeling remained throughout the book. Stu, the sperm donor, was awful. Who locks a four-year-old who has to pee out of the bathroom because he's in there trying to whip up a sperm sample? Does someone like this really need to be a father? I don't think so. And his partner Pat was such a doormat. The man rarely showed any backbone and let Stu walk all over him. Debora, the surrogate mother, was a flake and her husband Danny was a jerk. Really, there are no winners here. But, that being said, I found this book interesting a... morend fascinating. I learned a lot about surrogates, the contracts between them and the potential parents for their child, and the Jewish faith. Lowenthal is a great writer and he presents a wonderfully written book about difficult people.
review 2: I'm shocked at all the great reviews here. I thought this book was terrible. I didn't believe in any of the characters, I found the relationship between Pat and Stu to be depressing, I thought the plot was predictable and boring, and frankly I'm sick of stories about gay people having straight affairs. Debora was a completely romanticized character. The adoption and Jewish themes were offensive. The end was unsatisfactory. There may have been some small moments of interesting writing, but on the whole, I really disliked this book. less

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