Baby Bank

Baby Bank (publication date 9/19/23) by Sarah Robinson is a cute queer sapphic romance that hit home for me–the main character, Mila Torres, is a lawyer, and she wants to become a mother despite the fact that she is still a single bisexual at 35. With her multiple live-in friends assisting her swiping through a known donor app, she chooses someone who is not creepy–seems nice, and smart, even,

We find out that Mila’s known donor is the brother of the journalist–Ari–that has been pursuing Mila for weeks for details about the divorce that she’s been working on for a conservative senator. So there’s some political drama woven in as well. And Mila has a side hustle–she is also known as Torrey Miles, stand up comic, throughout the DC area, because being a divorce lawyer is not funny at all.

Mila and Ari keep running into each other, though if they are seen together it could ruin Mila’s career.. But Mila wants to see her, and maybe more, even though she might be pregnant with Ari’s brother’s baby? How do you date when you possibly may be pregnant? And you think you’re in love with . . . the baby’s biological aunt?

It is super-cute, hilarious, feminist, and sweet. All of the characters are lovable–Mila has both a found family and is close to her mother, who was a single mother herself.

There is, however, some anti-fat bias throughout, mostly in how Mila describes her weight gain through her pregnancy. I was disappointed that the author chose to include the anti-fatness and it wasn’t caught in the editing process–it’s otherwise inclusive, with characters of several different ethnicities. But it didn’t detract too much from the overall story for me.