false 59172607 575081 127394 009945176X 9780099451761 62 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171934104m/127394.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171934104s/127394.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/127394.Until_the_Real_Thing_Comes_Along 3.53 886 Elizabeth Berg's Until the Real Thing Comes Along, the biological clock is ticking all too loudly. Alas, there are no likely partners on the horizon for Patty Ann Murphy. The only man who doesn't inspire diversionary tactics is Patty's high-school sweetheart Ethan Gaines- but he happens to be gay. What's a woman of the '90s to do?
The answer: she persuades Ethan to impregnate her, and they agree to a marriage of true minds (if not bodies.) They won't, of course, actually marry, or even live together. But Patty signs on for a lifetime of child rearing with her sexually indifferent soul mate- and finds herself wading into a wealth of emotional complications. Will Ethan ever make love to her again? Will her parents accept her (essentially) single-mommy status? ]]> 3529 3.62 27845 3914 1999 3 0 false Mon Jul 06 11:20:24 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 10 12:23:21 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 06 11:20:24 -0700 2009