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"Clever, true-to-life...call it 'Sex and the City' for the parental set.... Zigman writes with a chatty humor that keeps you hooked from the first line."
--New York Post

"Funny--no path to parenthood is beyond consideration."
--USA Today

"[The heroine] is smart, funny and successful--she could slip right into the cast of 'Sex and the City' and kvetch with the best of them--.trolling through sperm-donor biographies with her humor in tow. Ellen is undeniably likeable, and she'd be fun to have drinks with."
--The New York Times Book Review

"A lark of a read--Zigman's style draws the reader into Ellen's quest."
--Publishers Weekly

"A tale that makes for laughs and touching moments--[Zigman] portrays a woman's love for a child so poignantly that more sentimental readers may weep--.her modern story of a woman on a baby quest is a worthy read, both well told and funny."
--Kirkus Reviews

"Some undeniably funny moments."
--Entertainment Weekly

"Fans of 'Friends' or 'Ally McBeal' will find familiar delight in Laura Zigman's comic second novel...charmingly chatty."
--New York Daily News

Praise for Animal Husbandry:

"Exceedingly funny...Clever, engaging...continually amusing."
--Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post

"Wit, wisdom, and a sure comic voice...this is great fun, a dog-eared hoot. Zigman's second effort can't come too soon."
--The Philadelphia Inquirer

"Fresh and hilarious...should do for dumped girlfriends what Olivia Goldsmith's The First Wives Club and Fay Weldon's The Life and Loves of a She-Devil did for dumped wives: hearten, console, viciously amuse."
--Time

"Girl meets boy, boy dumps girl...Zigman siphons off the tears and the curses and by alchemy converts them into laughter."
--People

"[A] funny tale of love found and lost...if a little laughter can help mend a broken heart or strengthen a healthy one, then Animal Husbandry should be on reading lists of all the old cows and, for that matter, the old bulls out there, roaming the lonely grazing fields of love."
--USA Today

"[A] charming debut novel about a woman's quest to truly understand the mind of the male beast."
--Vanity Fair
"This is great fun, a dog-eared hoot. Zigman's second effort can't come too soon." --The Philadelphia Inquirer

"It's clever, it's true-to-life, it's exaggerated, and let's face it, anything that can make you laugh about heartbreak should go on the life-sentence syllabus."--Newsday -->

Laura Zigman grew up in Newtonville, Massachusetts, and spent ten years working in the book publishing industry in New York. Her pieces have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and USA Today. She lives in Washington, D.C.