More Than Enough
A Novel
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“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.
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DNA test results rattle a middle-aged New Yorker in the poignant latest from Quindlen (After Annie). Polly Goodman teaches English at a private school for girls and meets once per month with her book club, which includes Helen, Jamie, and Sarah. As a gag gift for Polly's 42nd birthday, the women give her a DNA test, sparked by her concern that her trouble getting pregnant might result from "bad genes." After Polly submits her sample, she receives a notification from the company's website that a relative of hers has just taken the test. She then receives a message from someone named Talia Burton, who asks Polly to explain "how we're related." She travels to Vermont to meet Talia, who turns out to be a 16-year-old Black girl desperate to learn about her extended family. Back in New York, Sarah helps Polly with the mystery of her connection to Talia, though Polly's quest is complicated by Sarah's cancer and her own nausea from hormone injections related to IVF treatment. The revelations are predictable, but Quindlen charms with her nuanced depiction of the women's close bonds ("I wouldn't think it was possible, but I think you've gotten even nicer after being sick," Jamie tells Sarah, adding that she "didn't necessarily mean it as a compliment"). The author's fans will find much to admire.
