ericabea 's review for:

Family Family by Laurie Frankel

5.0

emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Another 5-star book so early in the year? This is rare. But this book was beautifully written, gorgeously read, and heartwarming to the soul. Laurie Frankel does a wonderful job writing a story about adoption that ISN'T sad or a "savior" story. It's just a story about a family full of good people who make choices that may not be conventional. But those choices lead them to not only FAMILY family but family in the broader sense of that word. Family can look a lot of different ways and anyone would be lucky to have one that looked like the characters in this book. 

I won't go into plot details here, because I went into this book blind and it was a surprising joy to read. So just go read it.