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Sara is sixteen and pregnant. Her once-devoted boyfriend seems to have disappeared, so she decides her best and only option is an open adoption with George and Eva, a couple desperate for a child. After the birth it's clear Sara has a bond with the child that Eva can't seem to duplicate. When it seems that Sara cannot let go, Eva and George make a drastic decision, with devastating consequences for all of them. From Publishers Weekly Leavitt's uneven but earnest eighth novel examines the emotional price a bright Massachusetts teen pays when she chooses ''open'' adoption for a baby she gives birth to at 16. It's 1987, and smart Sara Rothman has fallen in love with ''black sheep'' Danny Slade. When he vanishes after learning she's pregnant, Sara gives the baby up. Leavitt (Coming Back to Me) poignantly depicts the consequences of that choice for everyone concerned: Sara, who misses her baby and Danny both; Abby and Jack, Sara's well-meaning parents; Danny, the young father; George and Eva Rivers, the attentive but naive adoptive couple; and Anne, the child. At first, Sara visits the Riverses daily-she loves Anne, and the Riverses had cared for her while she was pregnant. But her pre

Who reads Girls in Trouble : A Novel?

Author

Leavitt, Caroline

Publisher

New York: St. Martin's Press

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9780312339739

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Children'S, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.69 / 5 (63 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14