Finding Georgina
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Publisher Description
A mother and daughter reunion faces unexpected and painful challenges in this emotionally compelling novel from the author of What Makes a Family.
It’s the moment Harper Broussard always dreamed of. Her daughter Georgina, snatched fourteen years ago during a Mardi Gras parade, is standing before her, making cappuccinos behind the counter of Harper’s favorite New Orleans coffee shop. Harper’s ex-husband, Remy, has patiently endured many “sightings” over the years, and assumes this is yet another false alarm.
Yet this time, Harper is right.
The woman who kidnapped Georgina admits to her crime. Georgina, now known as Lilla, returns to her birth parents. But in all of Harper’s homecoming fantasies, her daughter was still a little girl, easily pacified with a trip to the park or a cherry snowball. In reality, she’s a wary, confused teenager who has never known any mother except the loving woman who’s now serving time. Harper’s younger daughter, Josephine, has spent her life competing with the ghost of a perfect, missing sister. Trying to bond with the real, imperfect version isn’t any easier. And though Remy has agreed to give their strained marriage another chance, he and Harper struggle to connect.
Clinging to dreams of reuniting has been Harper’s way of surviving. Now she must forge new ones on an often heartbreaking yet ultimately hopeful journey—one that will redefine her idea of motherhood and family.
Praise for Colleen Faulkner’s Just Like Other Daughters
“This deeply moving story of maternal love and renewal will touch your heart . . . beautifully written with rare insight.” —Susan Wiggs, #1 New York Times bestselling author
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
A mother finds her daughter who was kidnapped 14 years earlier in the satisfying latest from Faulkner (What Makes a Family). Harper Broussard is a New Orleans veterinarian living with her teenage daughter, Jojo, in the ancestral home inherited by her ex-husband, Remy. There have been times over the past 14 years that Harper has believed that she's seen Georgina, her oldest daughter who was kidnapped when she was two, and now she becomes certain a teenage girl working in a local coffee shop is her long-lost daughter. When police question the girl's mother, Sharon Kohen, she confesses to kidnapping Georgina, whom she initially believed was her deceased child and then came to love as if she were her own. While Harper is elated that her daughter has been cared for all these years, she is disturbed that Georgina doesn't remember her and has been going by the name of Lilla Kohen, the name of Sharon's dead child. Georgina, an intelligent, independent young woman, is devastated by Sharon's betrayal and thrust into the arms of a family she can't recall. Harper struggles with her overprotective nature and her Catholic faith, which is at odds with Georgina's Jewish upbringing. Through multiple points of view, Faulkner crafts a cast of flawed, realistic characters, and the story's intense emotion will resonate with readers.
