From the best-selling author Sara Zarr comes the remarkable story of what it means to be a family & the many roads we can take to become one. Jill Mac Sweeney just wishes everything could go back to normal. But ever since her dad died shes been isolating herself from her boyfriend her best friends
- everyone who wants to support her. & when her mom decides to adopt a baby it feels like shes trying to replace a lost family member with a new one. Mandy Kalinowski understands what its like to grow up unwanted
- to be raised by a mother who never intended to have a child. So when Mandy falls pregnant one thing shes sure of is that she wants a better life for her baby. But will she ever find someone to care for her too? As their worlds change around them Jill & Mandy must learn to both let go & hold on & that nothing is as easy
- or as difficult
- as it seems.