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Kensington
June 2019
On Sale: May 28, 2019
352 pages
ISBN: 1496718178
EAN: 9781496718174
Kindle: B07H1Z64DY
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Women's Fiction
Sienna has no memory of her late mother, yet every
significant day of her life—birthdays, the first day of high
school, graduation—has been marked by a letter written
during her last weeks of life. Sienna knows her father feels
grateful to be able to offer up these connections to the
loving, talented woman his daughter never got a chance to
know. Yet for Sienna herself, the letters have become a
dreaded burden, a reminder that every milestone is less than
it would be if both parents were still living. A month before her twenty-fifth birthday, Sienna finds a
lump. Facing a cancer diagnosis, Sienna begins to ask
questions about her mother’s terminal illness—questions that
reveal unsettling inconsistencies and voids in the stories
she’s been told. The deeper she digs, the more the image of
her mother as a contented homemaker warps into something
much darker and far more troubling. If Sienna’s dad lied
about this, what else did he lie about? What does it mean to be a good parent? What role does the
past play in who we are? And to what lengths should one go
to protect a child? Like the best of Jodi Picoult, Whatever
It Takes delves into these fascinating questions of family
and identity with power, insight, and love.
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