Sara's Laughter

Despite warnings from her mother that if she waited too long to get married she wouldn't be able to find a husband, Sara waited until she found the right man, but now she is thirty-five and she is having trouble getting pregnant. She has tried everything except technologies that are not approved by her religion. Under pressure from her widowed father to give him a grandson, she is tempted to try anything, but she keeps hoping for a miracle. Her hope is kept alive by a dream in which God told her husband she would have a baby. When her sister Becky, who doesn't want to have children, gets pregnant accidentally from an extramarital fling, Sara comes up with a solution that would finally make her dream come true. But when things don't go according to plan she loses her way, and she discovers a side of her nature she never imagined.

Tom Milton's first career was in journalism with the Wall Street Journal, after which he served in the army during the Vietnam War. He then joined a large international bank and worked overseas, initially as an economic/political analyst and finally as a senior executive. He has spent a major part of his life in foreign countries, which has given him settings for his novels (Buenos Aires, Madrid, London, Santo Domingo, and other places). His characters always find themselves in situations that test their values and reveal their inner conflicts. He writes for an audience of serious readers, and his novels are popular with book groups.