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IMMEDIATE FAMILY
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Eileen gives an overview of the book:

Fifteen years after their Princeton graduation, Jay, Franny, Emerson and Stevie meet at a college reunion. Life has taken each of them in different directions--Jay is a married man with a baby on the way, while Franny yearns for a child. Divorced single mom Emerson is drawn to a man who challenges her assumptions about finding a once-in-a-lifetime love. And Stevie has recently been rocked by a shocking revelation--the answer to a long-kept family secret. The bond between them takes a surprising twist, on that changes how each feels about family and friendship. ONe thing is certain: They will all find their heart's desires in the last place they imagine--as they discover that family is less about blood ties than the warm embrace of ones who accept them as they are.
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Fifteen years after their Princeton graduation, Jay, Franny, Emerson and Stevie meet at a college reunion. Life has taken each of them in different directions--Jay is a married man with a baby on the way, while Franny yearns for a child. Divorced single mom Emerson is drawn to a man who challenges her assumptions about finding a once-in-a-lifetime love. And Stevie has recently been rocked by a shocking revelation--the answer to a long-kept family secret.

The bond between them takes a surprising twist, on that changes how each feels about family and friendship. ONe thing is certain: They will all find their heart's desires in the last place they imagine--as they discover that family is less about blood ties than the warm embrace of ones who accept them as they are.

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About Eileen

I was born on the Fourth of July.  When I was old enough to ask what the fireworks were for, my mother told me they were for me.  I was school age before I learned differently.  But it instilled in me a sense of specialiness, for lack of a better word, in thinking that what I...

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