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Snap Out of It, January 2023
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The Magic of Found Objects, June 2021
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A Happy Catastrophe, June 2020
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Matchmaking for Beginners, June 2018
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The Survivor's Guide to Family Happiness, November 2016
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The Stuff That Never Happened, August 2010
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THE SURVIVOR'S GUIDE TO FAMILY HAPPINESS
By: Maddie Dawson

Lake Union
November 2016
On Sale: October 25, 2016
420 pages
ISBN: 1503939103
EAN: 9781503939103
Kindle: B01D2ZNXW6
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Women's Fiction

Three women, three lives, and one chance to become a family…whether they want to or not.

Newly orphaned, recently divorced, and semiadrift, Nina Popkin is on a search for her birth mother. She’s spent her life looking into strangers’ faces, fantasizing they’re related to her, and now, at thirty-five, she’s ready for answers.

Meanwhile, the last thing Lindy McIntyre wants is someone like Nina bursting into her life, announcing that they’re sisters and campaigning to track down their mother. She’s too busy with her successful salon, three children, beautiful home, and…oh yes, some pesky little anxiety attacks.

But Nina is determined to reassemble her birth family. Her search turns up Phoebe Mullen, a guarded, hard-talking woman convinced she has nothing to offer. Gradually sharing stories and secrets, the three women make for a messy, unpredictable family that looks nothing like Nina pictured…but may be exactly what she needs. Nina’s moving, ridiculous, tragic, and transcendent journey becomes a love story proving that real family has nothing to do with DNA.