COMING 1/23/24

From New York Times bestselling author, Laurie Frankel, comes a propulsive, sharply funny, and strikingly tender novel about how families are sometimes formed in the most unexpected ways.

Fig Allwood is ten years old. So is her twin brother Jack. Their mom is a superhero Viking on TV. At least she is for the moment. Fig and Jack have to share a phone, and plus they’re not allowed on social media, but even they can tell their mother is in really deep…well, they’re also not allowed to say that word.

India Allwood’s past life — the one before she became a star — makes her the perfect fit for a prestige picture about adoption, but when she admits to a reporter concerns about the film’s message, things quickly spiral out of control. Fig thinks she knows a way to help her mom, but the person she (secretly) joins forces with is the daughter India placed for adoption sixteen years before. Soon India’s battling for her family and career against protesters in her driveway, paparazzi in her face, and studio execs in their board room, not to mention her panicked agent who reports that India has managed the impossible: uniting the entire internet (in rage)(against her). 

Family Family is about, well, a family — not exactly blood related, not exactly chosen either — and all the joys and obligations, humor and heartbreak, family entails no matter how it came to be. With her usual blend of comic insight, deep compassion, and engrossing story, Laurie Frankel has crafted a timely and personal novel about what it means to be related, how to give up what won’t stay gone, and double-knotting the ties that bind.

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