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Baby Come Back

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The premise of this story sounded good enough for me to grab it out of the sale bin at the bookstore. Joe is an 25 year old married man, somewhat curious about his birth mother (he was adopted at birth). His wife Molly helps him find her, then the story takes off as his birth mother turns out to be a flamboyant actress. As this is fiction, I hesitate to be too picky about details but some things shouldn't be done, even in fiction. The first big annoyance is the fact that Joe calls his adoptive parents by their first names. The second is this undercurrent of dissatisfaction Joe has always felt due to having been adopted. Upon meeting the baby she gave up at birth, Stella immediately falls in love with him. A battle of wills for his affection ensues, involving mostly the wife and birth mother. As an adopted person myself, I can assure all of you out there that I have 2 parents, one called Mom and the other called Dad. Any biology involved was incidental. An infant cannot feel rejected, so it's not like being adopted at birth can result in anybody's not fitting in, or feeling detached.
Like I said, this is fiction, and light fiction at that. But a pack of one dimensional characters, likeable though they may be, don't make for gripping reading. Fortunately, nobody really gets hurt in this story, and it all winds up with a fabulously happy ending.
If you find this in the library, or it is a gift, read it. Not too sure if I can recommend spending real money on it though.