Someone Else's Child
- List Price: $23.00
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster
- Publish date: 07/01/2000
The third girl, Tara, was spared her friends' fate because she was with her parents, Jennie and Chris, as Jennie gave birth to a second child the very night of the accident. Jenny and Chris mourn the girls' deaths with Tara and the town, but when a pervasive sense of blame falls on Matt, Jennie feels compelled to help him. She hires Matt to work for her high school reunion company for the summer and, now vilified by the community, Jennie and Matt grow close. As Tara pulls away from her mother and Chris questions his wife's rationale, Jennie tries to revive Matt's tortured spirit and feels Matt reviving hers -- until faced with a heartbreaking choice.
Someone Else's Child is a deeply moving story of guilt and forgiveness, despair and hope, and the intricacies of love and responsibility -- parental, communal, and moral.
