A #1 New York Times Bestseller that feels like it was written for your book club. Polly Goodman’s world — friendship, family secrets, and the people who hold us together — is tender, funny, and achingly real. The kind of novel you’ll press into a friend’s hands before you’ve even finished it.
$29.00
No one knows you like your book club. And no book understands that truth quite like this one.
High school English teacher Polly Goodman has built her life around the people she loves — her veterinarian husband, her students, and the tight circle of women in her book club who have seen her through everything: a fraught relationship with her mother, the heartache of IVF, the quiet joys and daily struggles of an ordinary, extraordinary life. They are her bedrock. Her people.
Then a joke gift — an ancestry test kit — sends Polly spiraling into questions she never thought to ask. A stranger appears in her results. Her family history suddenly feels like a book with missing pages. And when her beloved circle of four threatens to become three, Polly must reckon with what friendship truly means, and what we owe the people who shape us.
Written with the warmth, humor, and piercing emotional intelligence that have made her one of America’s most treasured storytellers, this #1 New York Times Bestseller is a novel about the families we’re born into and the ones we build — and the beautiful, complicated love that holds them together.
Perfect for book clubs (naturally), fans of women’s fiction, and anyone who has ever wondered how well they really know their own story. This is the kind of novel you’ll want to press into the hands of your closest friends the moment you finish the last page.
Wise, tender, and teeming with life. We’re so glad it found a home on our shelves.
| Weight | 1.25 lbs |
|---|---|
| Book Author | Anna Quindlen |
| Fiction Type | |
| Subject | Contemporary, Domestic Life, Family Life, Friendship, Genre Fiction, Literature & Fiction, Mothers & Children, Women's Fiction |
| Accolade |

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