Not a hit for me

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This book rubbed me the wrong way about serval topics. It started off interestingly enough about the family dynamics of a wealthy, New York, Jewish family. Where the book started to loose me is a lot of comments are made about the IVF process of the families triplets and later 4th child. The author places such an emphasis on these children who don't feel like triplets because they were just randomly chosen embryos. Later in the book they make a big deal about the 4th child and how she is "the same age" as her triplet siblings just held back in a freezer for 17 years. It's all so very strange and I feel like it's extremely insulting to children born from IVF and their parents. I have no personal experience with any of this but it all just felt very icky and strange hearing them speak in this manner about their births. There were lots of great ideas in this book but they didn't come together for me in the novel. It was not for me.