He Gets That From Me

By: Jacqueline Friedland

Narrated by: Devon Sorvari

As a young mother with a toddler and a live-in boyfriend, Maggie Fisher's job at a checkout counter in downtown Phoenix doesn't afford her much financial flexibility. She dreams of going to college and becoming a teacher, options she squandered when she fled her family home as a teenager. When Maggie stumbles onto an ad offering thousands of dollars to women who are willing to gestate other people's babies, she at first finds the concept laughable. Before long, however, she's been seduced by all the ways the extra money could improve her life. Once she decides to go for it, it's only a matter of months before she's chosen as a gestational carrier by Chip and Donovan Rigsdale, a married couple from New York.

After delivering twin babies and proudly handing them off to the Rigsdales, Maggie finally gets her life on a positive trajectory: she earns her degree, lands a great job, and builds a family of her own. She can't fathom why, ten years after the fact, the fertility clinic is calling to ask for a follow-up DNA test.

High-energy and immensely listenable, He Gets That from Me explores what it really means to be part of a family.

©2021 Jacqueline Friedland (P)2022 Tantor

Hooks you in. Your won’t want to stop listening.

This story was a good one well written. It has you wanting to keep listening to find out what happens next.

Meh!

I was expecting more after an Instagram blogger raved about it. Very mediocre did not need to read.

See life In another perspective

Didn't want it to end. Great book! Allows readers to mentally view all perspectives. Highly recommend!

Good story

Hard to follow at first with a woman’s voice doing both a man and a woman. That soon goes away.