Three games will decide the fate of her father's love.
Eighteen-year-old Em is making the most risky decision of her life. She's adopting. She's ignoring the typical trajectory of a young adult to recreate the nostalgic family life of her childhood.
But, in the middle of the baby’s delivery, Em's dad sends a cryptic emergency text pressuring her to immediately meet him on top of a parking garage. She arrives to a trap. His tight-lipped disapproval expects her to abandon these ideas of 'motherhood' and, instead, play board games with him to re-patch their old bond.
Fleeing him instead of fighting him is her daughterly forte. But as his hollow words poke at her aspirations of being a good mom, nagging like the doubts in her own head, she decides to prove herself. To win over the complicated man who inspired her to be a parent, Em must strategically use his obsessive hobby against him or lose out on the one big happy family she’s always hoped for.
Ciao, Chubby Child! is a contemporary fiction novel combining calculated gameplay with spiraling family collision.
Genre: General Fiction
Eighteen-year-old Em is making the most risky decision of her life. She's adopting. She's ignoring the typical trajectory of a young adult to recreate the nostalgic family life of her childhood.
But, in the middle of the baby’s delivery, Em's dad sends a cryptic emergency text pressuring her to immediately meet him on top of a parking garage. She arrives to a trap. His tight-lipped disapproval expects her to abandon these ideas of 'motherhood' and, instead, play board games with him to re-patch their old bond.
Fleeing him instead of fighting him is her daughterly forte. But as his hollow words poke at her aspirations of being a good mom, nagging like the doubts in her own head, she decides to prove herself. To win over the complicated man who inspired her to be a parent, Em must strategically use his obsessive hobby against him or lose out on the one big happy family she’s always hoped for.
Ciao, Chubby Child! is a contemporary fiction novel combining calculated gameplay with spiraling family collision.
Genre: General Fiction