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[2021]., Adult, Doubleday Canada Call No: Fic Gib Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: " From the renowned author of Sweetness in the Belly, The Beauty of Humanity Movement and This Is Happy, comes a bold, urgent and richly imagined novel about what it means to be a family in our modern world. Lila is on a long, painful journey toward motherhood. Tess and Emily are reeling after their ugly separation and fighting over ownership of the embryos that were supposed to grow their family together. And thousands of miles away, the unknown man who served as anonymous donor to them all is being held in captivity in Somalia. While his life remains in precarious balance, his genetic material is a source of both creation and conflict. What does it mean to be a family in our rapidly shifting world? What are our responsibilities to each other with increasing options for how to create a family? As these characters grapple with life-altering changes, they will find themselves interconnected in ways they cannot have imagined, and forced to redefine what family means to them."--Provided by publisher.
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[2015]., Adult, Doubleday Canada Call No: Bio G437t Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Camilla Gibb, author of Sweetness in the Belly and The Beauty of Humanity Movement, reveals the intensity of the grief that besieged her as the happiness of a longed for family shattered. Grief that lived in a potent mix with the solace that arose with the creation of another, most unexpected family. A family constituted by a small cast of resilient souls, adults broken in the way many of us are, united in love for a child. Reflecting on tangled moments of past sadness and joy, alienation and belonging, Gibb revisits her stories now in relation to the happy daughter who will inherit them, and she finds there new meaning and beauty. This Is Happy asks the big questions and finds answers in the tender moments of the everyday. Camilla Gibb has a Ph.D. from Oxford University and teaches in the graduate creative writing programs at the University of Toronto and the University of Guelph-Humber"--Provided by publisher.
