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Family Family
by Laurie Frankel
India has spent her entire life chasing the goal of becoming an actor. When she was just a teenager, her meticulously laid out plans of going to college are very nearly sidelined when she becomes pregnant. Realizing that she has a choice in front of her, India places her daughter Rebecca up for adoption, allowing her to continue to go after her dream and help another woman realize her own dream of becoming a mother. After 4 years at college, on the eve of graduating, she again finds herself pregnant, and after much thought, she places her son Lewis, with a loving couple, Andy and Drew, who dreamed of starting their own family. India can now start the hard work of establishing her career on stage.
As she matures and starts to find success on Broadway, she realizes she is now ready to have children herself. She changes her career goals, leaves New York to head to Los Angeles for steadier and more stable work, and she adopts twins Fig and Jack, children that have already seen more than their share of trauma at a young age. While it might not be the stage stardom she dreamed of, the TV superhero role she takes makes her very rich and very famous, allowing her to make a movie, one very close to her heart, about adoption. But when it hits theaters, she admits during an interview that the film puts the tragic aspects of adoption on full display, basically saying it isn't very good. India is immediately attacked from all sides, with journalists digging up her past, and making all of her children (and their birth fathers) the center of speculation, rumors, and attention. But what makes a family? Is it blood, love, or simply the ties that bind us together?
I loved every character in this book! I felt like I not only had a wonderful reading experience, but that I learned so much about the world of adoption, through the eyes of the birth parents, adoptive parents and the children. By giving the reader multiple timelines as well as allowing us to understand each character, Laurie Frankel really knocks this novel out of the park! Family is truly the center of this story.
As she matures and starts to find success on Broadway, she realizes she is now ready to have children herself. She changes her career goals, leaves New York to head to Los Angeles for steadier and more stable work, and she adopts twins Fig and Jack, children that have already seen more than their share of trauma at a young age. While it might not be the stage stardom she dreamed of, the TV superhero role she takes makes her very rich and very famous, allowing her to make a movie, one very close to her heart, about adoption. But when it hits theaters, she admits during an interview that the film puts the tragic aspects of adoption on full display, basically saying it isn't very good. India is immediately attacked from all sides, with journalists digging up her past, and making all of her children (and their birth fathers) the center of speculation, rumors, and attention. But what makes a family? Is it blood, love, or simply the ties that bind us together?
I loved every character in this book! I felt like I not only had a wonderful reading experience, but that I learned so much about the world of adoption, through the eyes of the birth parents, adoptive parents and the children. By giving the reader multiple timelines as well as allowing us to understand each character, Laurie Frankel really knocks this novel out of the park! Family is truly the center of this story.