{"product_id":"any-other-family","title":"Any Other Family","description":"\u003ch2\u003eA rare, funny and poignant novel celebrating the beauty of open adoption and non-traditional families.\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey look just like any other family... but between the four children there are THREE sets of parents who committed to an open adoption of biological siblings, keeping the children connected after the death of their grandmother.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTabitha the planner of the group, is insistent that everything happens just so. Quiet single mother Ginger resists the forced togetherness, and newest mother Elizabeth is still reeling from going directly from failed fertility treatments into adopting a newborn.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut when the three women receive a surprising call from their children’s birth mother, announcing she is pregnant again and wants them to help her find an adoptive family for this child too, the delicate bonds they are still struggling to form threaten to collapse. As tensions start to rise on their joint family holiday, the three women reckon with their own feelings about what it means to be a mother and what they owe each other as a family.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe New York Times bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Weird Sisters\u003c\/i\u003e returns with a striking and intimate new novel about three very different women facing an impossible question: what makes a family?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eReal Simple''s Best Books of 2022\u003cbr\u003eThe Washington Post''s 12 Noteworthy Books for July and August\u003cbr\u003eEntertainment Weekly’s Best New Books of July 2022\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e''[A] full-bodied exploration of family ties, especially those made by choice''\u003c\/b\u003e The New York Times Book Review\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Brown’s experience with adoption brings emotional depth to her chronicle of each woman’s anxieties''\u003c\/b\u003e The Washington Post\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Brown has a sure hand in portraying the adoptive women; their smart, lively dialogue sparks as the characters try to define the boundaries of a family''\u003c\/b\u003e Publishers'' Weekly\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e''A prismatic story of family, adoption, and how the people we choose to keep close shape who we are''\u003c\/b\u003e Kirkus\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Explores what it means to be a family, in all its messy complication''\u003c\/b\u003e Christina Baker Kline\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Brown brings compassion and insight to exploring the hopes and vulnerability that make us first human, then family''\u003c\/b\u003e Isabel Costello\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e''A beautifully written, elegantly assembled exploration of the joys and complications of family, any family, no matter what it looks like''\u003c\/b\u003e Laurie Frankel\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e''I adored this story''\u003c\/b\u003e Prima\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Smart, original, wholly satisfying''\u003c\/b\u003e Elinor Lipman\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57312815743358,"sku":"NW9781915054470","price":8.84,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781915054470.jpg?v=1778530007","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/any-other-family","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}