Every Good and Perfect Gift

by: Sharon K. Souza

Published by: NavPress

Reviewed by Jamie Driggers

DeeDee and Gabby have been best friends for most of their lives. And for the majority of their friendship, DeeDee has been the idea person. DeeDee concluded whom each of them should marry and that neither of them would have children. Until DeeDee–approaching her fortieth birthday, changed her mind.

Gabby has been a mostly happy accomplice. After all, DeeDee’s plans just made sense. So Gabby plays the supportive friend role through two years on DeeDee’s rollercoaster ride through infertility. Just when DeeDee’s reproductive life decides to comply with her wishes, Gabby begins to notice that DeeDee isn’t really DeeDee anymore.

This is a wonderful book about the love and personalities that bind a friendship together. It is one of those books that I wish I could have written. Sharon Souza handled the infertility aspect of the story with such humor and grace–and by painting it from Gabby’s perspective, she was able to get the emotion without too deeply plumbing the depths of despair.

If you are looking for a good and somewhat funny book about infertility, this is it. If you are looking for a good book about friendship, this is it. And, okay, I can’t call it a good book about Early Onset Alzheimer’s, because that disease is far too depressing to be described in any way as “good,” but the end was highly satisfying, anyway.

Armchair Interviews says: A book that is very “satisfying” on many levels.

Author’s Web site: http://www.SharonKSouza.com