Book: Family Family
Author: Laurie Frankel
Pages: 400
This is my 161st read for the year
What Amazon Says:
India Allwood grew up wanting to be an actor. Armed with a stack of index cards, she goes from awkward 16 year old to Broadway ingenue to TV superhero. Her new movie is a pretige picture about adoption, but its spin is the same old tired story of tragedy. India is an adoptive mom in real life though. She wants everyone to know there's more to her family than pain and regret. So she does something you should never do - she tells a journalist the truth: it's a bad movie. Soon she's at the center of a media storm, battling accusations from the press and the paparazzi, from protesters on the right and advocates on the left. Her twin 10 year olds know they need help - and who better to call than family? But that's where it gets really messy becasue India's not just an adoptive mother. The one thing she knows for sure is what makes a family isn't blood. And it isn't love. No matter how they're formed, the truth about family is this: it's complicated.
Stars: 4
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