Lauren Grodstein – författare

It''s a Saturday morning in Brooklyn. Joel Miller, age twenty-eight, stands outside his locked bathroom door. Behind it are his girlfriend Lisa, a Dixie cup, and a pregnancy test. While she stalls for time, Miller is left in his hallway to wonder and wait: for the results of the test, for the pieces of his addled life to come together, for some kind of divine intervention to guide his actions when Lisa finally emerges.Thus begins Lauren Grodstein''s beguiling debut novel, a wise, wonderfully assured journey deep into the heart of the commitmentphobic male. Awaiting test results that could determine his future, Miller finds himself replaying all he has seen of love so far. There was his father Stan''s awkward balancing act between doting father and failed husband, and his mother Bay''s refusal to accept that Stan was never coming back. There was his playboy friend Grant''s devastation upon falling for the one woman he couldn''t have. And most of all, there was Miller''s own prior relationship--with Blair, the aloof beauty he can''t stop thinking about, the one who got away. With past and present colliding in his hallway, Miller begins to realize just how little he really knows about intimacy, love and potential fatherhood--and more important, about what he''s going to do next.Reproduction is the Flaw of Love fearlessly charts the romantic odyssey of one endearing New York bachelor, and in so doing illuminates some universal truths about family, loyalty, devotion, and love.From the Hardcover edition.

Für Pete Dizinoff läuft alles prima. Er hat eine erfolgreiche Praxis, eine liebevolle Frau und ein hübsches Haus in einem gediegenen Vorort. Vor allem hat Pete einen Sohn, Alec, für den er nur das Beste will.Aber eines Tages und nach langer Abwesenheit taucht Laura wieder auf, die Tochter von Petes bestem Freund. Sie ist zehn Jahre älter als Alec, unwiderstehlich schön und steht in dem Verdacht, als Teenager ihr Baby bei der heimlichen Geburt getötet zu haben.Alec ist sofort von Laura hingerissen, Pete hingegen sieht seine Träume für den Sohn zerplatzen. In dem festen Glauben, nur in Alecs Sinne zu handeln, versucht er, die Beziehung seines Sohnes zu hintertreiben. Doch es sieht so aus, als ob er selber ein Auge auf Laura geworfen hätte. Und alles gerät außer Kontrolle ...

Joel Miller's girlfriend has locked herself into the bathroom with a pregnancy test. Joel hasn't planned to be a father, he's not even sure he wants to be one, but as of a couple of hours ago it's a very real possibility. Lisa isn't the love of Miller's life - theirs is a relationship which happened by accident rather than by design - but Miller realises that he might now be bound to her forever. And so, while his future is decided for him behind a closed door, he tries to make sense of his past. Complicated memories come back, many of them buried for a good reason, of a turbulent childhood and his parents' dysfunctional marriage, of his complex father and difficult, unpredictable mother. But, most of all, he thinks about his failed relationship with the unforgettable, unconventional Blair, the woman he loved most of all ...