Austin Boyd

Dear Readers,

I waited to write this blog review about Austin Boyd’s book Nobody’s Child until after my book club met.  I was very interested in what the book club had to say.  I was curious as to whether they liked it and what they had to say about it.  They were mostly in favor of the book, they had a couple of points they either disagreed with or found down right funny.  Over all we decided it was a good book and would recommend it to others.

The subject of the book is the harvesting, buying and selling of human eggs.  It is something that is very much in the news suddenly.  In fact I watched a news story this morning about a lady who is an American citizen who was impregnated by eggs and sperm in a foreign country.   Neither the country the donations came from nor the USA recognizes these children as citizen of their country.  The parents are caught in between the law and what medicine can do for them right now. 

With that news story, suddenly this book becomes more relevant than ever.  These are things that we as Christians will need to know about and choose  on the right and wrong of it all.  I know that the discussion we had last night was pretty interesting, but I don’t think we decided anything.

Laura Ann believes the only way she can save her family farm is to sell her eggs.  She is not proud of this choice, but feels pushed into it by circumstances.  Through several strange twists she meets one of the mothers helped by her donation and suddenly her choice comes home and she knows that she now has children out there that she will never know or meet. 

This is one of those gray issues that seem to be ok at first glance, but as I did more looking into it and the effects on the woman who donate and the children born as a result, it might not be so gray.  I can’t give you an answer to what you should think, but this book will at least start you deciding for yourself.  Austin also includes several websites, books and papers that you can visit and read to help you understand it all.

Happy Reading

P.S. This book is available at Baker Book House or by request online at bakerbookstore.com