What Makes a Family

What Makes a Family

Nestled in the Chesapeake Bay, Brodie Island Â is charming, remote, and slow to change. For three hundred years, Abby Brodieâ€™s farming family has prospered there. Now, years after leaving to make her way on her own terms, Abby is coming home to see her ailing grandmother, with her teenage daughter and a wealth of memories in tow. Yet as family members gather at the old farmhouse, Abby realizes this visit offers more than a chance to say goodbye.
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After decades of feeling she was a disappointment as a daughter, Abby is beginning to see that her mother, too, has struggled to feel a sense of belonging within the Brodie family. Celeste, Abbyâ€™s self-centered sister, is far from the successful actress she pretends to be, and needs help that only Abby and their half-brother, Joseph, can give. But most surprising of all is the secret that Grandmother Brodie has been carryingâ€”one that will make each woman question her identity and the sacrifices sheâ€™s willing to make to gain acceptance.
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With her trademark emotional honesty and insight, Colleen Faulkner lays bare the challenges at the heart of a familyâ€”learning how to forgive, connect, and let ourselves be truly known at last.

Praise for the novels of Colleen Faulkner

AS CLOSE AS SISTERS

â€œAs Close as Sisters shares the emotions of four very different women and their personal journeys through heartbreak, hope, and joy. Faulkner addresses serious topics that will evoke both tears and laughter while leaving readers contemplating the unbreakable bonds of friendship.â€ --Booklist
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â€œReaders of womenâ€™s fiction and in womenâ€™s book groups will be drawn to Faulknerâ€™s new novel. Pour a glass of pinot grigio, grab a box of tissues, and savor the ride.â€ â€“Library Journal

JUST LIKE OTHER DAUGHTERS

â€œThis deeply moving story of maternal love and renewal will touch your heart. Itâ€™s a celebration of the capacity of the human heart to heal itself and embrace change, beautifully written with rare insight.â€ â€”Susan Wiggs, #1 New York Times bestselling author

â€œBe prepared to weep tears of sorrow as well as tears of joy. This is a novel you wonâ€™t soon forget.â€ â€”Holly Chamberlin, author of Summer with my Sisters

â€œSo real, so honestâ€¦I laughed, I hoped, I cried. Itâ€™s that good.â€ â€”Cathy Lamb, author of My Very Best Friend
Country USA
Manufacturer Kensington Books
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2017-01-31
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Kensington Books
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2017-01-31
Format	Kindle eBook

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