Removed from the Tree

Nationwide Ebook Award Winner, PEN America Award Winner, and New York Instances Bestseller!

Excellent for followers of This Is Us, Robin Benway’s lovely interweaving story of three very totally different youngsters linked by blood explores the that means of household in all its varieties— discover it, preserve it, and find it irresistible. 

Being the center youngster has its ups and downs.

However for Grace, an solely youngster who was adopted at start, discovering that she is a center youngster is a distinct experience altogether. After placing her personal child up for adoption, she goes searching for her organic household, together with—

Maya, her loudmouthed youthful bio sister, who has so much to say about their newfound household ties. Having grown up the snarky brunette in a home stuffed with chipper redheads, she’s fast to seek for traces of herself amongst these not-quite-strangers. And when her adopted household’s long-buried issues start to blow up to the floor, Maya can’t assist however surprise the place precisely it’s that she belongs.

And Joaquin, their stoic older bio brother, who has little interest in bonding over their shared organic mom. After seventeen years within the foster care system, he’s discovered that there aren’t any heroes, and secrets and techniques and fears are greatest stored near the vest, the place they will’t harm anybody however him.

Don't miss this shifting novel that addresses such necessary matters as adoption, teen being pregnant, and foster care.