FINDING FAMILY & YOURSELF – FICTION

In Lauren Grodstein‘s A Dog in Georgia: A Novel, Amy Webb was a chef. Then she became a wife, a stepmother, and an emergency contact, and the chef in her disappeared, along with her sense of self. Now it’s time to acknowledge her needs and what she really wants, and to find herself – and a missing dog in a former Soviet republic. In Hannah Orenstein’s Maine Characters: A Novel, Vivian Levy and Lucy Webster are half-sisters who meet for the first time at their father’s cabin in Maine after his unexpected death. Vivian was raised in New York City; Lucy grew up in a tiny Maine town. As they angrily untangle the messy truth about their parents, is it too late for them to be a family? And in Rochelle B. Weinstein’s We Are Made of Stars, the Vis Ta Vie inn faces closing. Fittingly, three guest couples are in crisis too: a pair of Hollywood celebs, a therapist and her astronomer husband, and a high-powered former lawyer and a sports agent. Add a self-absorbed single mom and her daughter, and what ensues is a week full of betrayals, regrets, and shocking truths. Moderated by Zibby Owens, founder of Zibby Media.

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Buy A Dog in Georgia: A Novel – Grodstein

Buy Maine Characters: A Novel – Orenstein

Buy We Are Made of Stars – Weinstein