Maddie Dawson grew up in the South, born into a family of outrageous storytellers. Her various careers as a substitute English teacher, department-store clerk, medical-records typist, waitress, cat sitter, wedding-invitation-company receptionist, nanny, day-care worker, electrocardiogram technician, and Taco Bell taco maker were made bearable by thinking up stories as she worked. Today she lives in Guilford, Connecticut, with her husband. She\u2019s the bestselling author of four previous novels: The Opposite of Maybe<\/i>, The Stuff That Never Happened<\/i>, Kissing Games of the World<\/i>, and A Piece of Normal<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Three women, three lives, and one chance to become a family\u2026whether they want to or not.<\/b><\/p>\n
Newly orphaned, recently divorced, and semiadrift, Nina Popkin is on a search for her birth mother. She\u2019s spent her life looking into strangers\u2019 faces, fantasizing they\u2019re related to her, and now, at thirty-five, she\u2019s ready for answers.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the last thing Lindy McIntyre wants is someone like Nina bursting into her life, announcing that they\u2019re sisters and campaigning to track down their mother. She\u2019s too busy with her successful salon, three children, beautiful home, and\u2026oh yes, some pesky little anxiety attacks.<\/p>\n
But Nina is determined to reassemble her birth family. Her search turns up Phoebe Mullen, a guarded, hard-talking woman convinced she has nothing to offer. Gradually sharing stories and secrets, the three women make for a messy, unpredictable family that looks nothing like Nina pictured\u2026but may be exactly what she needs. Nina\u2019s moving, ridiculous, tragic, and transcendent journey becomes a love story proving that real family has nothing to do with DNA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":4855,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":""},"product_cat":[26],"product_tag":[],"yoast_head":"\n