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Title: A House for Happy Mothers

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Amulya Malladi

Narrator: Deepa Samuel

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-01-16

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 173 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

A stunning new novel - full of wit and warmth - from the bestselling author of The Mango Season.

In trendy Silicon Valley, Priya has everything she needs - a loving husband, a career, and a home - but the one thing she wants most is the child she's unable to have. In a Southern Indian village, Asha doesn't have much - raising two children in a tiny hut, she and her husband can barely keep a tin roof over their heads - but she wants a better education for her gifted son. Pressured by her family, Asha reluctantly checks into the Happy Mothers House: a baby farm where she can rent her only asset - her womb - to a childless couple overseas. To the dismay of friends and family, Priya places her faith in a woman she's never met to make her dreams of motherhood come true.

Together, the two women discover the best and the worst that India's rising surrogacy industry has to offer, bridging continents and cultures to bring a new life into the world - and renewed hope to each other.

Members Reviews:

wanted more

I knew it was the logical endong, but I wanted to know what became of Ausha' little boy as he grew up and I wanted an across the miles friendship to develop. The narration was superior to most audio books I have listened to... I could immediately tell by each character's voice who was speaking. The a uthor shows deep empathy for all involved in surrogacy.

Good, But Not Great

Was hoping for a deeper story, but did show how these women at the House For Happy Mothers were exploited. Very sad that they all chose to be surrogates solely for the money, and wanted to do it numerous times to better their families' lives. Difficult for me to understand how the doctor at the clinic could be so self serving, as to profit from them, and even encourage them to become surrogates over and over again. Excellent narration.

More sad than Happy to me

I like the Narrator. The story can make you cry if you have a bleeding hearty like me.

Loved it!

I really loved the narrator, her voice was so perfect for the story, and so soothing. She really brought the story to life, from the images in India to California and the inner turmoil within Pria and Asha. I may listen again!

Entertaining Story with Excellent Narration

I enjoyed this book -- easy reading, interesting theme, especially for non-Indians who may take for granted that surrogacy is just another way to carry and birth a baby.

The House of Happy Mothers not only addresses what surrogacy means to women in the West and in the East, but to the poor and to the rich. It also interweaves the issue of ethical responsibility of those who promote these services (the clinics and doctors who make bank in the industry), social justice and women's rights.

The author did a good job describing the surrogate and the biological mom -- we had a good sense of the complexities involved in their individual processes. in fact, the surrogate moms' complaints and inner turmoil were a strong vehicle for a social critique that I enjoyed very much.

At times, however, the book seemed a bit redundant, and I would've liked it to be more spare. At the very end, the author seems to have felt compelled to spoon-feed us the conclusion so to speak, that seemed unnecessary.

I can't say enough about the narrator: She carried the book at moments when I simply would've had a hard time concentrating.