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A Surrogate Story
By Cathleen Medwick
Oprah.com   |   From the July 2008 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine
How Far is the Ocean from Here
How Far is the Ocean from Here
By Amy Shearn
320 pages. Shaye Areheart.


The worst-case scenario: A sweet surrogate mother suddenly disappears right before giving birth to a couple's child. Amy Shearn's How Far Is the Ocean from Here (Shaye Areheart) tracks quirky, love-starved Susannah Prue to a motel in the desert, where she's found her own surrogate family (or so she thinks). Read it for the kamikaze adventure, for the bone-dry, liberating landscape, and for the stirrings of love in a barren life.
Printed from Oprah.com on Sunday, May 19, 2013
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