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Also by Maggie Leffler:

The Secrets of Flight, May 2016
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The Goodbye Cousins, July 2009
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The Diagnosis of Love, March 2007
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The Goodbye Cousins
Maggie Leffler

Bantam
July 2009
On Sale: June 30, 2009
384 pages
ISBN: 0385340478
EAN: 9780385340472
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Women's Fiction

A tender, funny, effervescent novel about reconnecting cousins, family secrets, and a season of change

“Your family will find you.” It was the last thing Diotima Linzer’s mother, Roxanne, ever told her. But this was the same mother who kidnapped Di when she was eleven and fled to Europe where her broken-hearted father—and the FBI—would never find them. Now a single mom herself, Di is making a belated return to the States with her two-year-old son, Max, searching for the father she lost. That means moving in temporarily with her cousin Alecia and Alecia’s fiancé, Ben, in a Pittsburgh apartment crowded with wedding gifts.

If that’s not already a recipe for disaster, Di soon finds herself falling for the wealthy, handsome, “nearly divorced” father who hires her as a nanny for his troubled teenage son, while her cousin Alecia, preoccupied by her promotion to television news anchor and a prenup she hasn’t mentioned to her fiancé, has to cope with the sudden reappearance of her estranged mother—who may hold the secret to Di’s parents’ past. Suddenly these two very different cousins—one searching for direction in the universe, the other desperate to stop her well-ordered life from unraveling— are about to discover that the family they thought they’d lost may have found them instead.

Comments

7 comments posted.

Re: The Goodbye Cousins

This sounds like a very interesting story. Got my attention. Will be putting it on my TBR list for sure. Best Wishes!
(JoAnn White 12:27pm July 21, 2009)

Definitely on my reading list. I'd love to win a signed copy.
Lorraine
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(Lorraine Larose 1:25pm July 21, 2009)

interesting...
(Sandy Haber 3:50pm July 21, 2009)

GOT ME WANTING MORE:-}
(Ann w 6:02pm July 21, 2009)

Families can certainly cause chaos in
one's life. Sounds like a really good
story.
(Patricia Barraclough 10:09pm July 21, 2009)

How interesting can families become from one act? your story sounds good
(Diane Sadler 8:51am July 22, 2009)

I love to read stories about family relationships!
(LuAnn Morgan 11:13am July 22, 2009)