Diotima Linzer (Di) is returning to the United States,
searching for a memory of her dead father and trying to
piece together the life that was taken from her. She's
actually coming for her cousin's wedding, with all her
earthly belongings in tow (there isn't much) along with her
two-year-old son. Di is searching for something more than
just family memories, but even she is not sure what
that "something" is.
Di and her cousin, Alecia, never had a chance to say
goodbye. At 11, Di's somewhat eccentric mom kidnapped her
and took her to England so that her father could not have
custody of her in their divorce. Now Di and Alecia are
catching up on almost 20 years. Correspondence through
letters, however, has kept them in touch with each other
since Alecia found Di through an Internet search.
As Di is searching for her past and trying to make sense of
her present, Alecia has her own set of problems. She is
putting more effort into her career than her relationship
with her fiancé, Ben, and her upcoming marriage. And she is
keeping secrets from Ben, secrets that could lead to her
destruction. Alecia is also keeping secrets from Di, as she
is looking for some truth about her family and what really
happened all those years ago.
In an effort to find her own way, Di works as a nanny and a
cook for a wealthy divorced man who tries to take advantage
of her, but also helps her realize some things about
herself and about life in general. Di seeks out Alecia's
estranged mother, recently released from rehab, and learns
some of the secrets of the past. And her trip to
Philadelphia to see her father's widow really opens her
eyes in her search for family and what life is all about.
Dave, the landscaper, adds a little charm and romance to
this delightful novel that is sure to have you wondering if
Di and Alecia are going to come out all right. Will Di
learn that she cannot change the past and that she also
cannot predict the future? In her search for her family,
closure about her father and the truth, will her deceased
mother's final words ring true: "Your family will find
you."?
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.
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)
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