Baby Proof- Emily Giffin

#77. Baby Proof- Emily Giffin

Claudia and Ben have a great marriage, probably as close to perfect as anyone could hope for. They're young, successful professionals, living it up in New York, focusing on their careers and each other, especially since neither of them want kids. Why would anyone want kids? You have to rearrange your whole entire life around them, and neither Claudia nor Ben wants that.

But a few years into their marriage, Ben starts to reconsider his decision, and this opens such a cavernous gulf between the two of them that there's just no going back. Goodbye to Claudia-and-Ben. Hello, single girl.

Baby Proof is Claudia's story, of how she navigates her newly single life, lives with the consequences of her decisions, and re-examines everything she thought she wanted. It's emotional, painful, sad...and ultimately hopeful. I love how the city of New York is so present in Giffin's books. She's one of those writers who is so fully engaged with her setting and loves it so much that it turns the city into a character all its own. That adds so much to her books (which I already enjoy!). A quick read.