In Naima Coster’s Take What You Can: A Novel, the realities of class and social capital, strained marriages, and the demands of motherhood are reminders to once-best friends Val and Milly of how far apart they’ve grown since that long-ago study abroad trip in which they met. Now in their thirties, Val is a brilliant journalist, and Milly is a successful influencer married to restaurant royalty. Can their sisterhood survive? In Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney’s Lake Effect: A Novel, Clara was on the threshold of adulthood when the scandal sparked by her mother’s fling with a prominent neighbor unraveled her world. Now back home for a family wedding, she’ll make a decision that will turn her life upside down. It’s a story of love and desire, mothers and daughters, and loss and grief – and what we owe to the people we love most. In Corey Ann Haydu’s Mothers and Other Strangers: A Novel, two estranged childhood best friends reunite as expectant mothers after a mysterious falling out between their own mothers kept them apart for years. When Sydney and Mae meet again, each with a baby girl on the horizon, it seems like destiny. But they soon discover that a devastating secret has drawn them together. And in Nayantara Roy‘s Sisters of a Halved Heart: A Novel, Mira brings her soulmate, Jack, to meet her beloved father and dear sister, Joy, only for her sibling to commit an unthinkable act of betrayal. But she is not the only one who has been dishonest. Sisters is about love, lies, passion, and the ultimate pull of family. Moderated by Ellen Book, branch manager, Pinecrest Branch, Miami-Dade Public Library System.

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