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 Trade Size / e-Book Add to Wish List
Three women, three lives, and one chance to become a familyโฆwhether they want to or not.
Newly orphaned, recently divorced, and semiadrift, Nina Popkin is on a search for her birth mother. Sheโs spent her life looking into strangersโ faces, fantasizing theyโre related to her, and now, at thirty-five, sheโs ready for answers.
Meanwhile, the last thing Lindy McIntyre wants is someone like Nina bursting into her life, announcing that theyโre sisters and campaigning to track down their mother. Sheโs too busy with her successful salon, three children, beautiful home, andโฆoh 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 picturedโฆbut may be exactly what she needs. Ninaโs moving, ridiculous, tragic, and transcendent journey becomes a love story proving that real family has nothing to do with DNA.
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