NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Quindlen is as observant and as wonderfully readable as ever, attuned to women’s lives and the nuances of their voices.”—Jennifer Weiner, The New York Times Book Review
A woman confronts the surprising results of an ancestry test and begins to question the meaning of family and friendship in this wise, tender novel teeming with life—from the beloved #1 New York Times bestselling author of After Annie
No one knows you like your book club.
High school English teacher Polly Goodman can talk about everything and anything with the women in her book club, which is why they’ve become her closest friends and, along with her veterinarian husband, the bedrock of her life. Her students, her fraught relationship with her mother, her struggles with IVF—Polly’s book club friends have heard about it all.
But when they give Polly an ancestry test kit as a joke, the results match her with a stranger. It is clear to Polly that this match is a mistake, but still she cannot help but comb through her family history for answers. Then, when it seems that the book club circle of four will become three, Polly learns how friendships can change your life in the most profound ways.
Written with Anna Quindlen’s trademark warmth, humor, and insight into the power of love and hope, More Than Enough explores how we find ourselves again and again through the relationships that define us.
Quindlen at her best
"When you start an Anna Quindlen novel, you know you will be getting a well-written, literate, moving story about families in all their forms. More than Enough is no exception. Reading it is like receiving a warm hug. Polly Goodman is our narrator - a forty-ish English teacher, struggling with crushing infertility, and feeling the weight of a rapidly declining father who is now in a care home. But it is really mothers and daughters who are at the heart of the book. As a character muses aptly - ""Maybe everyone's mother was a kind of mystery to her daughter. Maybe everyone's daughter was a mystery to her mother. "" The central tension in Polly's life is her fraught relationship with her formidable mother, and the unexpected results of a genealogy test that may or not be pointing her in a direction she does not want to go. But this is a Quindlen novel - there are reconciliations and revelations and most of the people in Polly's life are well-meaning and wise - this novel in particular is replete with grandmothers who are there to nurture you and tell you the things you don't want to really know. Highly recommend."
