Perfect Little World

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Call Number: Adult Book / Fiction / General / Wilson, Kevin
On Shelf At: Malletts Creek Branch, Westgate Branch

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When Isabelle Poole meets Dr. Preston Grind, she's fresh out of high school, pregnant with her art teacher's baby, and totally on her own. Izzy knows she can be a good mother but without any money or relatives to help, she's left searching. Dr. Grind, an awkwardly charming child psychologist, has spent his life studying family, even after tragedy struck his own. Now, with the help of an eccentric billionaire, he has the chance to create a "perfect little world"--to study what would happen when ten children are raised collectively, without knowing who their biological parents are. He calls it the Infinite Family Project and he wants Izzy and her son to join. This attempt at a utopian ideal starts off promising, but soon the gentle equilibrium among the families disintegrates: unspoken resentments between the couples begin to fester; the project's funding becomes tenuous; and Izzy's growing feelings for Dr. Grind make her question her participation in this strange experiment in the first place. Written with the same compassion and charm that won over legions of readers with The Family Fang, Kevin Wilson shows us with grace and humor that the best families are the ones we make for ourselves.--Page 4 of cover.

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Intreging, but..... submitted by Zekicmom on June 16, 2018, 8:53pm The concept of raising children collectively, with all the parents taking shifts providing their care is an interesting one. The book has lots of twists and turns, some predictable, some less so. My biggest problem with the story is that it made no reference to early life on Kibbutz, collectives in Israel where children once lived in children houses and not with their parents. The "Infinate Family Project" in the book is presented as a never before tried concept, completely revolutionary. I had trouble suspending belief and forgetting that data about a similar experiment already exists.