num_pages: 386
description: Three women three lives and one chance to become a familywhether they want to or not. Newly orphaned recently divorced and semiadrift Nina Popkin is on a search for her birth mother. Shes spent her life looking into strangers faces fantasizing theyre related to her and now at thirty-five shes ready for answers. Meanwhile the last thing Lindy McIntyre wants is someone like Nina bursting into her life announcing that theyre sisters and campaigning to track down their mother. Shes too busy with her successful salon three children beautiful home andoh yes some pesky little anxiety attacks. But Nina is determined to reassemble her birth family. Her search turns up Phoebe Mullen a guarded hard-talking woman convinced she has nothing to offer. Gradually sharing stories and secrets the three women make for a messy unpredictable family that looks nothing like Nina picturedbut may be exactly what she needs. Ninas moving ridiculous tragic and transcendent journey becomes a love story proving that real family has nothing to do with DNA.
language: English
title: The Survivor's Guide to Family Happiness
publisher: Lake Union Publishing