{"product_id":"what-we-leave-behind-a-powerful-story-of-family-secrets-unexpected-friendships-and-belonging-0063415380","title":"What We Leave Behind: A Powerful Story of Family Secrets, Unexpected Friendships, and Belonging","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0063415380\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Halpern, Sue\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the author of Summer Hours at the Robbers Library, a tenderhearted story of two very different women grappling with the messy emotional legacies passed down by their parents-for fans of Dani Shapiro, Ann Napolitano, and Jodi Picoult.Its the perennial question: are we a product of how we were raised, or is our identity hardwired by our genetic inheritance? When her adoptive mother dies in a freak accident, high school senior Melody Marcus doubles down on her refusal to learn anything about her birth parents. In this age of 23\u0026amp;me, though, that may not be possible, and the secrets hidden in her DNA threaten to upend everything she knows about herself and her family.For Candace Milton, a successful woman in her forties, the collateral damage from her parents tortured marriage has led to a life of intentional unattachment. She is happy-enough. But a chance encounter with a friend of Melodys father will challenge this assumption and force her to reimagine who she is and who she might become.Big-hearted, evocative, and achingly relatable, What We Leave Behind grapples with destiny, belonging, and love, and makes us question our own idea of family: the kind were born into and the kind we create.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51607643586848,"sku":"NEW0063415380","price":14.77,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/71vEbVpA1wL.jpg?v=1778697481","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/what-we-leave-behind-a-powerful-story-of-family-secrets-unexpected-friendships-and-belonging-0063415380","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}