The Things We Do For Love

The Things We Do For Love by Kristin Hannah The youngest
of three daughters Angela DeSaria Malone was always “the
princess” of the family a girl who thought she knew how
her life would unfold. High School. College. Marriage.
Motherhood. That was how it had gone for her sisters her
cousins her friends. But it didn’t work out that way for
Angie. She and her husband tried desperately to have a
child; year after year their perfectly decorated nursery
remained empty. Finally their marriage collapsed under the
weight of lost dreams. After the divorce Angie moved back
to her hometown and rejoined her loud loving slightly
crazy family. In West End a place where life rises and
falls in time with the tides she will find the man who
once again will open her heart to love . . . and meet the
girl who will change Angie’s life. Lauren Ribido lives in
a rundown apartment in a bad part of town with a mother
who cares more about her next drink than about her
daughter. At seventeen Lauren knows that her aspirations
in life may never come to pass. From the moment they meet
Angie sees something special in Lauren. They form a quick
connection this woman who is desperate for a daughter and
the girl who has never known a mother’s love. When Lauren
is abandoned by her mother Angie doesn’t hesitate to offer
the girl a place to stay. But nothing could have prepared
Angie for the far-reaching repercussions of this act of
kindness. In a dramatic turn of events she and Lauren will
be tested in a way that mothers and daughters seldom are.
Together they will embark on an intensely moving deeply
emotional journey to the very heart of what it means to be
a family.