A review by kim_j_dare
The Imperfects by Amy Meyerson

4.0

I am a sucker for dysfunctional families. And siblings Beck, Ashley, and Jake have plenty of dysfunction to go around, at least partially seeded by their flaky mother Deborah. When Deborah’s mother Helen dies, her will seems pretty straightforward: house to Deborah, and everything else to be divided equally among the grandchildren... except for a brooch, which goes to Beck. But the brooch, which Beck originally takes for garish costume jewelry, is anything but: it holds a 137-carat yellow diamond, the Florentine Diamond, which hasn’t been seen since the Habsburg Monarchy collapsed. Helen was never forthcoming with Deborah or her grandchildren about her past, and now, with claims against the diamond from both the Austrian government and the Italian government, the dysfunctional Miller family is going to have to work together if they have any hope of making peace with Helen’s shadowy past and their own heritage.

In turns humorous and wrenching and wise, this novel has a lot of heart.

Thanks to Harlequin and NetGalley for the electronic ARC.