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“Honestly explore[s] the complexities of adoption in modern America.”
Anthony Marra, New York Times bestselling author
A Goop Pick for Gwyneth Paltrow's Book Club
An Amazon Editor’s Top Pick
An Entertainment Weekly Pick of Most Anticipated Books of Summer
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A tender and fierce debut novel that explores the bond between two siblings—one the biological child and one adopted from an orphanage in Thailand
It is the day of her brother’s wedding and our narrator is still struggling with her wedding toast. Despite a recent fracture between them, Danny has asked her to give a speech, and she doesn’t know where to begin, how to put words to their kind of love. She was nine years old when she traveled with her parents to Thailand to meet her brother, age three. They grew up together like any other siblings, and shared a bucolic childhood in Northern California. Yet when she holds their story up to the light, it refracts in ways she doesn’t expect.
What follows is a heartfelt letter addressed to Danny and an attempt at a full accounting of their years growing up, invoking everything from the classic Victorian adoption plot to childless women in literature to documents from Danny’s case file. It’s also a confession of sorts to the parts of her life that she has kept from him, including her own struggle with infertility. And as the hours until the wedding wane, she uncovers the words that can’t and won’t be said aloud.
In Immediate Family, Ashley Nelson Levy explores the enduring bond between two siblings and the complexities of motherhood, infertility, race, and the many definitions of family.
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Here is a different genre of novel in this day and age of greed, hate, violence et al. This book is void of paper thin subject matter. Here is a story about infertility and the adoption process. As years pass by, friction develops and expected problems take place. Yet, with all the adjusting having to take place, this is a book of truth and struggle dealing compassionately with infertility and adoption. Highly recommended.
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