Every Kind of Wanting by Gina Frangello

I heard about this book on one of my podcasts and thought it sounded really interesting....and it was, but I really didn't like any of the characters very much, so I had a hard time engaging with the story.
Having just gone through the experience of having a surrogate carry my son and daughter-in-law's first child, I was attracted to the story, but this story is SO DIFFERENT from that in my family. Thank God!
Here is what the Westchester Library says about the book:

Every Kind of Wanting explores the complex intersection of three unique families and their bustling efforts to have a "Community Baby." Miguel could not be more different from his partner Chad, a happy-go-lucky real estate mogul from Chicago's wealthy North Shore. When Chad's sister, Gretchen offers the couple an egg, their search for a surrogate leads them to Miguel's old friend Emily, happily married to an eccentric Irish playwright, Nick, with whom she is raising two boys. Into this web falls Miguel's sister Lina, a former addict and stripper, who begins a passionate affair with Nick while deciphering the mysteries of her past. But every action these couples make has unforeseen consequences. As Lina faces her long-hidden demons, and the fragile friendships between Miguel and Chad and Nick and Emily begin to fray as the baby's birth draws near, a shocking turn of events-and the secret Lina's been hiding-threaten to break them apart forever. By turns funny, dark and sexy, Every Kind of Wanting strips bare the layers of the American family today. Tackling issues such as assimilation, the legacy of secrets, the morality of desire, and ultimately who "owns" love, the characters-across all ethnicities, nationalities, and sexualities - are blisteringly alive"--

But, here is my favorite quote in the book:
"Our children are never ours. We belong to them, but they belong to themselves.  They belong to people not yet born."