Any Other Family
By: Eleanor Brown
3.67
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling author of The Weird Sisters returns with a striking and intimate new…
Want to Read $ 8.99"Whether it was fate that made them family or the dumb luck of the universe, they are here now, and they are going to go forward together."-Eleanor Brown, Any Other Family
"It's an amazing thing, she thinks, that we marry a person because we claim to love them so much, and then punish them by making them tolerate all our worst qualities."-Eleanor Brown, Any Other Family
"There is a strange trick to adoptive motherhood, she has found, a necessary blindness to the bifurcation of your child's life. if you spend all your time thinking about the life your child might have lived, how things might have been different if they stayed with their birth family, you will rob them of the life they are living, and drive yourself crazy to boot."-Eleanor Brown, Any Other Family
"Now Tabitha is forced to truly consider the mechanics of things, to look at events as chance rather than luck, as coincidence rather than fate. Because there are so many families who would love to adopt this child, who have ached, prayed or wondered. Out of all of those people, how do you choose? What if you choose the wrong family for a child? How would you even know?"-Eleanor Brown, Any Other Family
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1. After Annie
By: Anna Quindlen
4.03
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
When Annie Brown dies suddenly, her husband, her four young children and her closest friend are lef… read more
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2. Happiness Falls
By: Angie Kim
3.75
Format: 387 pages, Hardcover
When a father goes missing, his family's desperate search leads them to question everything they kn… read more
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"I lost a World - the other day! Has Anybody found? - Emily Dickinson, 1896"-Angie Kim, Happiness Falls
3. The Latecomer
By: Jean Hanff Korelitz
4.01
Format: 439 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Plot, Jean Hanff Korelitz’s The Latecomer is a la… read more
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4. Lucy by the Sea
By: Elizabeth Strout
3.91
Format: 291 pages, Hardcover
As a panicked world goes into lockdown, Lucy Barton is uprooted from her life in Manhattan and bund… read more
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5. Pineapple Street
By: Jenny Jackson
3.57
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Darley, the eldest daughter in the well-connected, old money Stockton family, followed her heart, t… read more
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- literary fiction
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"But you know foundations shouldn't have to be the answer. The real problems are tax laws, anti-labor policies, and the slow expansion of the welfare state," Chip said. Everyone turned and looked at h…"-Jenny Jackson, Pineapple Street
6. Family Family
By: Laurie Frankel
4.00
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
“Not all stories of adoption are stories of pain and regret. Not even most of them. Why don’t we ev… read more
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- literary fiction
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"When people thought of mothers, they smelled cookies baking and chocolate melting. But actual mothers got shit for giving their kids too much sugar. When people thought of mothers, they thought soft …"-Laurie Frankel, Family Family
7. Flight
By: Lynn Steger Strong
3.43
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
"Arresting and powerful, Flight examines the possibility and pain of fierce love and hope in our … read more
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"You must be active in your own life. You must engage. Interact in order to create."-Lynn Steger Strong, Flight
"[T]hey'll all celebrate and toast each other, toast the small ways they can still care for and love one another, no matter how awful at it all of them are."-Lynn Steger Strong, Flight
"When we're young we think we'll just choose the lives we'll have, the people we're becoming, but so much of it just happens. You can live a whole life without choosing anything at all."-Lynn Steger Strong, Flight
"...she's the only person in the world who ever saw me the way she saw me, who loved me like that, who remembered me as all the things I'd ever been and also thought of me as all the things she still …"-Lynn Steger Strong, Flight
8. Welcome Home, Stranger
By: Kate Christensen
3.44
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
From the PEN-Faulkner Award-winning author of The Great Man comes a novel about grief, love, growin… read more
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9. Within Arm's Reach
By: Ann Napolitano
3.48
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
A tender and perceptive debut novel about three generations of an Irish American family jarred into… read more
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10. It All Comes Down to This
By: Therese Anne Fowler
3.37
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Meet the Geller sisters: Beck, Claire, and Sophie, a trio of strong-minded women whose pragmatic mo… read more
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11. The Half Moon
By: Mary Beth Keane
3.40
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Ask Again, Yes, a masterful novel about a couple in a small town who… read more
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12. Signal Fires
By: Dani Shapiro
3.91
Format: 229 pages, Hardcover
NATIONAL BEST SELLER • From the beloved author of INHERITANCE: “a haunting, moving, and propulsive … read more
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"How long will molecular traces of the Wilfs remain inside 18 Division Street?"-Dani Shapiro, Signal Fires
"It wasn't scary. I mean, it was scary being in the dark and cold and everything, but when the lady, Mrs. Wilf, died, it was like everything had no beginning, and no end. Like we were lightyears away …"-Dani Shapiro, Signal Fires
13. Sandwich
By: Catherine Newman
3.75
Format: 229 pages, Hardcover
From the beloved author of We All Want Impossible Things, a moving, hilarious story of a family sum… read more
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"What does loss look like, in your body? Where is it? It feels like an air bubble stuck in your psyche. It feels like peering down into a deep hole. The vertigo of that. The potential for obliteration…"-Catherine Newman, Sandwich
"We're just ruined by sex, women---our bodies, our psyches. We're sexually assaulted every five minutes. We're infected with everything. Traumatized by conceiving, by not conceiving. But let's keep at…"-Catherine Newman, Sandwich
14. Any Other Family
By: Eleanor Brown
3.67
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling author of The Weird Sisters returns with a striking and intimate new… read more
Want to Read $ 8.99Similar categories in Eleanor Brown's Any Other Family book and Eleanor Brown's Any Other Family
- literary fiction
- womens fiction
- adoption
- fiction
- contemporary
- chick lit
- family
- adult
- book club
- audiobook
"Whether it was fate that made them family or the dumb luck of the universe, they are here now, and they are going to go forward together."-Eleanor Brown, Any Other Family
"It's an amazing thing, she thinks, that we marry a person because we claim to love them so much, and then punish them by making them tolerate all our worst qualities."-Eleanor Brown, Any Other Family
"There is a strange trick to adoptive motherhood, she has found, a necessary blindness to the bifurcation of your child's life. if you spend all your time thinking about the life your child might have…"-Eleanor Brown, Any Other Family
"Now Tabitha is forced to truly consider the mechanics of things, to look at events as chance rather than luck, as coincidence rather than fate. Because there are so many families who would love to ad…"-Eleanor Brown, Any Other Family
15. Fellowship Point
By: Alice Elliott Dark
4.07
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
Celebrated children’s book author Agnes Lee is determined to secure her legacy—to complete what she… read more
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"I had been judicious in my warnings and instructions, phrasing them so as not to scare her, or inhibit her. I'm determined not to teach her to fear everything, as we were taught, or that manners are …"-Alice Elliott Dark, Fellowship Point
16. The Sweet Spot
By: Amy Poeppel
3.92
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
A wise and joyful novel that celebrates love, hate, and all of the glorious absurdity in between. … read more
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"The mistake people make when life hits them with some unexpected, and often unprepared-for, catastrophe is that they think they can just return to life the way it was before. They try to rebuild exac…"-Amy Poeppel, The Sweet Spot
17. Small World
By: Laura Zigman
3.47
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
“[A] brave and heartfelt book of truths.”—New York Times Book Review (A Group Text Pick and Editors… read more
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"Yet no one is really alone; those who live no more echo still within our thoughts and words, and what they did is part of what we have become — Blessing of Memory, Mediations Before Kaddish"-Laura Zigman, Small World
18. We All Want Impossible Things
By: Catherine Newman
4.00
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Who knows you better than your best friend? Who knows your secrets, your fears, your desires, your … read more
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"In the end there’s more beauty in the imperfection."-Catherine Newman, We All Want Impossible Things
19. More Than You'll Ever Know
By: Katie Gutierrez
3.73
Format: 435 pages, Hardcover
IT WAS A STORY THAT CASSIE BOWMAN COULDN'T RESIST.LORE RIVERA LOVED TWO MEN.UNTIL ONE OF THEM SHOT … read more
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20. Same As It Ever Was
By: Claire Lombardo
4.00
Format: 498 pages, Hardcover
Julia Ames, after a youth marked by upheaval and emotional turbulence, has found herself on the pla… read more
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"Parenthood was a persistent cruelty, a constant, simultaneous desire to be together and apart."-Claire Lombardo, Same As It Ever Was
21. The Frederick Sisters Are Living the Dream
By: Jeannie Zusy
3.53
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine meets Early Morning Riser with a dash of Where’d You Go, Bernad… read more
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