โ Scribed by Segal, Francesca
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"They've chosen the one thing that will make our family life impossible. It's genius really, when you think about it. It's the perfect sabotage."
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"Francesca Segal is precise and funny, and The Awkward Age is brimming with keen observations of the highest order--the clever, the sore, and the sublime." --Emma Straub, New York Times ยญ-bestselling author of Modern Lovers and The Vacationers
Julia Alden has fallen deeply, unexpectedly in love. American obstetrician James is everything she didn't know she wanted--if only her teenage daughter, Gwen, didn't hate him so much. Uniting two households is never easy, but when Gwen turns for comfort to James's seventeen-year-old son, Nathan, the consequences will test her mother's loyalty and threaten all their fragile new happiness.
This is a moving and powerful novel about the modern family: about starting over; about love, guilt, and generosity;...
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