Sarah Kate Ellis

The title of the book describes exactly what this book is about: two women meet, fall in love (after meeting twice; the first meeting didn't take), and decide to have a family together. Sarah, who has wanted a baby for a while, decides that she wants to try to get pregnant, but has trouble conceiving; once she does, she loses the baby. Kristen, who also wants a family with Sarah, decides to try to get pregnant as well, in effect doubling their chances of having a child. But - surprise - Sarah and Kristen both get pregnant within a few days of one another, and they have "twins" - two children, born only two weeks apart (the boy came a little early, while the girl was a bit late), who had the same donor father.

Although a rather run-of-the-mill memoir, I found myself enjoying it, mainly because there aren't many memoirs that deal with a happy lesbian family life. Parenting is not for me, but I can relate to wanting to be a mother so badly and then having such difficulty becoming one (my sister also had problems). It's a good read, and a relatively short one: I breezed through it in a few hours.… (altro)