Perfect Life

In this smart and engaging follow-up to her well-received debut The Hazards of Good Breeding Shattuck focuses on three privileged Gen X college roommates who are now grown up coupled up and raising kids in pre-recession Boston. The cracks in their perfect lives begin to show when the most precocious of the trio a gorgeous striver named Jenny whose husband is infertile makes the unconventional decision to have a baby with a sperm donation from Neil her brainy slacker ex-boyfriend from Harvard. . . . Stylish storytelling and sharp social commentary . . . make Perfect Life both topical and eminently readable. People