Natalie Portman's father, Dr. Avner Hershlag, has parlayed his fertility expertise into a self-published novel titled 'Misconception.'Though the book launched in early 2010 through iUniverse, Hershlag is now shopping the medical thriller to major publishing houses, according to the New York Observer.
"The author's pedigree may be more appealing to publishers than the novel's plot or subject matter," the Observer writes. "Dr. Hershlag is the father of actress Natalie Hershlag, better known as Portman."
Amazon's book description hypes 'Misconception' as such: "When Dr. Anya Krim, the first lady's fertility specialist, delivers a grossly deformed baby of undetermined sex, she tries to figure out how the child was conceived. But, before she is able to determine the baby's origin, she diagnoses a pregnancy in Megan, a senator's daughter, who has been in a coma for two years."
Hershlag told the Observer he'd always hoped to publish through a conventional outfit but ran low on time due to his "day job" as a Long Island doc. Hershlag dubs 'Misconception' a "reproductive thriller."
Portman's papa didn't shy about speaking of his daughter's own pregnancy, either. "When I hold a baby that I knew as an embryo a year ago-I can't even describe the feeling. It never goes away. And when I think that a few months down the road I'm going to hold the baby that's going to be my grandchild..."
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