Her entry begins:
I just finished re-reading The Great Gatsby, which of course I read while I was in high school, when it flew right over my head. Not so this time around.About You Were Meant For Me, from the publisher:
I found that I loved it right from the measured, ruminative start (In my younger and more vulnerable years, my father gave me some advice I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since. ‘When ever you feel like criticizing any one,’ he told me, ‘just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had) to the gorgeous futility of...[read on]
What do you do when you have to give up the person you love most?Learn more about the author and her work at Yona Zeldis McDonough's website.
Thirty-five-year-old Miranda is not an impulsive person. She’s been at Domestic Goddess magazine for eight years, she has great friends, and she’s finally moving on after a breakup. Having a baby isn’t even on her radar—until theday she discovers an abandoned newborn on the platform of a Brooklyn subway station. Rushing the little girl to the closest police station, Miranda hopes and prays she’ll be all right and that a loving family will step forward to take her.
Yet Miranda can’t seem to get the baby off her mind and keeps coming up with excuses to go check on her, until finally a family court judge asks whether she’d like to be the baby’s foster parent—maybe even adopt her. To her own surprise, Miranda jumps at the chance. But nothing could have prepared her for the ecstasy of new-mother love—or the heartbreak she faces when the baby’s father surfaces….
My Book, The Movie: Two of a Kind.
The Page 69 Test: Two of a Kind.
Coffee with a Canine: Yona Zeldis McDonough & Queenie, Willa and Holden (October 2012).
Coffee with a Canine: Yona Zeldis McDonough & Willa and Holden (September 2013).
The Page 69 Test: You Were Meant For Me.
Writers Read: Yona Zeldis McDonough.
--Marshal Zeringue
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