An Emotionally Complex and Relevant Read

The Gift is a moving and beautifully rendered story about ambition, whether overt or oblique, thwarted or fulfilled. In precise and elegant prose, Rachel Newcomb explores the ethics of egg donation, campus politics, and marital conflict. A smart, complex book by a deeply empathetic writer.”   – Laila Lalami, author of Secret Son and Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits

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Is egg donation a gift or a transaction? Today’s featured book, The Gift by Rachel Newcomb is a highly relevant and emotional read that will capture your attention right up to the perfect conclusion.

A Little About The Gift:

After several years together, Elise and Peter’s marriage is on the rocks. She can’t get pregnant, and he can’t finish his dissertation. Celia, the Princeton scholarship student who answers their advertisement for an egg donor, appears to be the solution to their problems. The daughter of an unemployed mill worker from South Carolina, Celia doesn’t quite fit into the elite Ivy League environment. But when Elise decides that Celia needs a mentor, the situation takes an unexpected turn.

About the Author:

Rachel Newcomb is the author of a novel, The Gift, and Women of Fes: Ambiguities of Urban Life in Morocco. She writes for The Huffington Post and is a frequent contributor to Washington Post Book World. An anthropology professor at Rollins College, she also holds a master’s degree in creative writing. Visit her website at rachelnewcomb.net.

Praise for The Gift:

“Clear and relentless… this timely, stark, dead-on story nails two of our biggest contemporary dilemmas and brings into question the entire arrangement of marriage in a world wrenched by torrents of ambition amid doubts about the future that turn friends and even spouses into rungs on the ladder, or roadkill.”   – Philip F. Deaver, author of Silent Retreats and How Men Pray

“I found myself drawn more and more deeply into the novel as I went along, and by the end I was completely immersed in the novel’s world. I recommend the novel highly.” –Tony Abbott

“This is an impressive first novel.  The characters are compelling, and the reader’s reaction to them changes as the story, and their personalities, unfold. The plot weaves strong themes of ambition, identity, and relationships in intriguing and unexpected ways, holding the reader’s interest to the end.” –J. Fuller

Make sure to grab your heartfelt copy of The Gift today.