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...repeated, obsessive references to her reproductive surgeon betray the narrator's deepest concern without, apparently, her being aware of the disclosure. Whatever Dr. Loquesto was supposed to do for her somehow did not work, in a way she doesn't explain. She is 40 and childless, and Hecht has subtly grounded all these remarkably funny and engaging stories in the fundamental sadness of mortality...
...obsessive references to her reproductive surgeon betray the narrator's deepest concern without, apparently, her being aware of the disclosure," says TIME's Paul Gray. "Whatever Dr. Loquesto was supposed to do for her somehow did not work, in a way she doesn't explain. She is 40 and childless, and Hecht has subtly grounded all these remarkably funny and engaging stories in the fundamental sadness of mortality...
...obsessive references to her reproductive surgeon betray the narrator's deepest concern without, apparently, her being aware of the disclosure," says TIME's Paul Gray. "Whatever Dr. Loquesto was supposed to do for her somehow did not work, in a way she doesn't explain. She is 40 and childless, and Hecht has subtly grounded all these remarkably funny and engaging stories in the fundamental sadness of mortality...
Thelma, the strong matriarch, has had to deal with a severe mother-in-law, a cheating husband, sterility, medicine men and more. Each step in her growth is treated like a gigantic leap of mankind, then is pushed aside for yet another revelation. After a few years of childless marriage, for example, Thelma's mother-in-law becomes concerned and takes action, asking "the old man to come." After that summoning, there is a break in the text, as if an earth-shattering meeting, or story-changing event is about to take place. The next paragraph contains a description...
...world did not let them go quietly. The Vatican newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, denounced the destruction as a "prenatal massacre"; protesters held a vigil outside Westminster Cathedral before the event and memorial services afterward; and people across Europe offered to "adopt" the frozen cells to preserve them. Childless couples bitterly lamented that they would gladly have taken the embryos for themselves. And some clinic workers contemplated going to jail rather than carry out the law, though they yielded...