num_pages: 368
description: Why is there a gap in Juless baby album? A wry and poignant coming-of-age novel about finding the truth in lies salvaging hope in heartbreak and making peace with missing pieces.Eighteen-year-old Jules has always wished for a close-knit family. She never knew her father and her ex-addict mother has always seemed more interested in artistic endeavors than in bonding with her only daughter. Juless life and future look as flat and unchanging as her small Illinois town. Then a simple quest to find a baby picture for the senior yearbook leads to an earth-shattering discovery: for most of the first two years of her life Jules lived in foster care. Reeling from feelings of betrayal and with only the flimsiest of clues Jules sets out to learn the truth about her past. What she finds is a wonderful family who loved her as their own and hoped to adopt her  including a now-adult foster brother who is overjoyed to see his sister again. But as her feelings for him spiral into a devastating catastrophic crush  and the divide between Jules and her mother widens  Jules finds herself on the brink of losing everything.
language: English
title: Relative Strangers
publisher: Candlewick Press