Mother of Invention

Its refreshing to read about motherhood as stated in its baldest, truest terms, and Tessas struggles with the life/work balance are moving and all too realTessas journey is hard to resist, and the questions raised by the prospect of shorter pregnancieswould they really empower women, or just make it mandatory for them to bear children as quickly as possible?feel downright prescient. The New York Times Book Review

What will a mother sacrifice to have it all?

Meet Silicon Valley executive Tessa Callahan, a woman passionate about the power of technology to transform womens lives. Her companys latest invention, the Seahorse Solution, includes a breakthrough procedure that safely accelerates human pregnancy from nine months to nine weeks, along with other major upgrades to a womans experience of early maternity.

The inaugural human trial of Seahorse will change the future of motherhoodand its Tessas job to monitor the first volunteer mothers-to-be. Shell be their advocate and confidante. Shell allay their doubts and soothe their anxieties. But when Tessa discovers disturbing truths behind the transformative technology shes championed, her own fear begins to rock her faith in the Seahorse Solution. With each new secret Tessa uncovers, she realizes that the endgame is too inconceivable to imagine.

Caeli Wolfson Widgers bold and timely novel examines the fraught sacrifices that women make to succeed in both career and family against a backdrop of technological innovation. Its a story of friendship, risk, betrayal, and redemptionand an unnerving interrogation of a future in which women can engineer their lives as never before.