It's a beautiful, thought-provoking tearjerker of a book, a meditation about family and its different forms, as well as the fears we don't share with those we love, and how what we don't say is …





Ann Leary, Narrated by: I typically find these sorts of stories to be trite and overly dramatic; adoption being a poor plot twist or (non) character development.

Absolutely nothing bad to say.





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Starting high school didn't change who she was.

Andrea Dunlop, Narrated by: And Joaquin, their stoic older bio brother, who has no interest in bonding over their shared biological mother. Being the middle child has its ups and downs. Kennedy Odede, no spoilers here, I promise. I not only liked but related to each character (parents and teenagers).

When social services jeopardize her safety, condemning her to keep her father's secret, it's a glass of spilled milk at the dinner table that forces her to speak about the cruelty she's been hiding.





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They’re all basically good kids carrying more baggage than most adults could bear.







Hildy is a successful real-estate broker, good neighbor, mother, and grandmother. The narrator could have done a better job on the male voices (not all of us have the gift).
But the cosy world the two construct is shattered when Ambrose sets off on a trip to Florence. Here’s what I loved: The Characters – Grace, Maya, and Joaquin were well-developed characters to love.



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Anna-Lou Weatherley. Wendy Walker. If only all such stories could be so n aptly tied up in a bow.








Hildy's family held an intervention for her about a year before this story takes place - "if they invite you over for dinner, and it’s not a major holiday," she advises "run for your life" - and now she feels lonely and unjustly persecuted. This book especially touched me since I was adopted infant in 1948 who recently met my siblings and biological father at age 70.