{"product_id":"9780374714963","title":"The House of Hidden Mothers: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eShyama, a forty-eight-year-old London divorcée, already has an unruly teenage daughter, but that doesn't stop her and her younger lover, Toby, from wanting a child together. Their relationship may look like a cliché, but despite the news from her doctor that she no longer has any viable eggs, Shyama's not ready to give up on their dream of having a baby. So they decide to find an Indian surrogate to carry their child, which is how they meet Mala, a young woman trapped in an oppressive marriage in a small Indian town from which she's desperate to escape. But as the pregnancy progresses, they discover that their simple arrangement may be far more complicated than it seems.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe House of Hidden Mothers\u003c\/i\u003e, Meera Syal, an acclaimed British actress and accomplished novelist, takes on the timely but underexplored issue of India's booming surrogacy industry. Western couples pay a young woman to have their child and then fly home with a baby, an easy narrative that ignores the complex emotions involved in carrying a child. Syal turns this phenomenon into a compelling, thoughtful novel already hailed in the UK as \"rumbustious, confrontational and ultimately heartbreaking . . . Turn[s] the standard British-Asian displacement narrative on its head\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e). Compulsively readable and with a winning voice, \u003ci\u003eThe House of Hidden Mothers\u003c\/i\u003e deftly explores subjects of age, class, and the divide between East and West.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47121419927792,"sku":"9780374714963","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780374714963_p0.jpg?v=1769892127","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780374714963","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}