When high schooler Grace chooses to give up her baby for adoption, her own adoption story all-of-a-sudden becomes essential knowledge. Trying to learn about her birth mom leads to not one but TWO biological siblings whose own experiences will soon impact her own in a huge way. Grace and her newly discovered brother and sister have to figure out what "family" really means and how to make a place for yourself in a world that feels like it's not legitimately yours in the same way it is for people who are raised by their biological parents.
The author really delves into ALL the adolescent issues in this one - adoptions, lgbtq issues, teen pregnancy, alcoholism, you name it, but as I listened to this story I really did start to care about these three teens. I cared about their choices and the baggage they had deal with, I felt tender for their anguish as they sorted through their fear of being left behind. There is a LOT of strong language in this one band I had to suspend my disbelief a and I really enjoyed thinking about all the many beautiful ways a family can be created, so it gets four stars from me.
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