Unexpected Child

Fate really has it in for Meg Krantz. A single 37-year-old lesbian, she relishes her independent life in New York City, and motherhood is the last thing on her mind. But when as a volunteer for an AIDS service provider she meets the soon-to-be-orphaned 4 1/2-year-old Kimble Toffler, her growing attachment to the child seems to be leading her in an unexpected direction.

"A novel about being delivered-freed-from our expectations. In prose that is confident and spare, often wry, and never sentimental, Patricia Grossman shows us how one woman comes to terms with her impulse to protect those she loves."-Michael Downing, author of Breakfast with Scot

Patricia Grossman is the author of Inventions in a Grieving House and Four Figures in Time and the award-winning children's books, The Night Ones and Saturday Market. She makes her home in Brooklyn.