From the author ofSummer Hours at the Robbers Library, a tenderhearted story of two very different women grappling with the messy emotional legacies passed down by their parentsfor fans of Dani Shapiro, Ann Napolitano, and Jody 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&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 happyenough. But a chance encounter with a friend of Melodys father will challenge