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    In Every Way: A Novel
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    In Every Way: A Novel

    By Nic Brown

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    A novel about a young woman, and the couple who have adopted her baby, that is “as insightful as it is entertaining” (Booklist).
     
    In Chapel Hill, North Carolina, college student Maria finds herself in a predicament—unexpectedly pregnant at nineteen. Still reeling from the fresh discovery of her mother’s cancer diagnosis, Maria decides to give her daughter up for adoption. It seems to be in everyone’s best interest—especially when it comes to light that the child’s father hasn’t exactly been faithful to her.
     
    Following the birth, Maria’s mother proposes an extended trip to the sleepy coastal town of Beaufort—the same town that the adoptive couple Maria chose for her daughter just happens to live in. Maria jumps at the chance, but finds herself listless and bored soon after her arrival. A summer job seems like a possible cure. She has kept close watch on the couple she chose to adopt her daughter—they live mere blocks away—and, when opportunity arises, she accepts a position as their nanny. Maria ingratiates herself into the family—hesitantly, at first, and then with all the confused and chaotic fervor of a mother separated from her child.
     
    In Every Way is a heartfelt novel that brings to light the unknowing destruction that heartache can manifest, and brims with the redemptive power of new beginnings.
     
    “Intimate, poignant, and filled with the delicate lurches and dark surprises of life.” —Megan Abbott, author of The Fever and Give Me Your Hand
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateFeb 1, 2015
    ISBN9781619025059
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      Nineteen-year-old Maria finds herself enmeshed in difficult circumstances: her mother has been diagnosed with stage four breast cancer and while Maria is trying to deal with that she discovers that she is unexpectedly pregnant. She makes the decision to give up her child [a girl she names Bonacieux] for adoption, choosing a couple she recognizes from Beaufort, the town where she and her mother have spent their summers. Later, when she and her mother just happen to be in Beaufort for an extended stay, Maria finagles her way into their lives, becomes their babysitter and then begins an affair with the adoptive father.Maria’s thoughtless, self-serving actions, largely focused on her desire to be with the daughter she gave up for adoption, create a disastrous situation and unleash destruction on the family that she so carefully chose for her baby. By the time she comes to the realization that her decisions and choices need to be about what is best for the child, readers are apt to be completely unsympathetic to her.