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BESTSELLER In a small town on the verge of big change, a young woman unearths deep secrets about her family and unexpected truths about herself. Filled with insights that are the hallmark of Anna Quindlens bestsellers, is an emotionally powerful story about a family you will never forget.

For generations the Millers have lived in Millers Valley. Mimi Miller tells about her life with intimacy and honesty. As Mimi eavesdrops on her parents and quietly observes the people around her, she discovers more and more about the toxicity of family secrets, the dangers of gossip, the flaws of marriage, the inequalities of friendship and the risks of passion, loyalty, and love. Home, as Mimi begins to realize, can be a place where its just as easy to feel lost as it is to feel content.

is a masterly study of family, memory, loss, and, ultimately, discovery, of finding true identity and a new vision of home. As Mimi says, No one ever leaves the town where they grew up, even if they go. reminds us that the place where you grew up can disappear, and the people in it too, but all will live on in your heart forever.

Praise for the bestselling fiction ofAnna Quindlen

Anna Quindlen knows that all the things we will ever be can be found in some forgotten fragment of family.about

There comes a moment in every novelists career when she . . . ventures into new territory, breaking free into a marriage of tone and style, of plot and characterization, thats utterly her own. Anna Quindlens marvelous romantic comedy of manners is just such a book. . . . Quindlen has delivered a novel that will have staying power all its own.about

Anna Quindlen writes about family with all the humanity, wit, and pain of going home.Wendy Wasserstein, about

Anna Quindlen is Americas resident Sane Person. She has what Joyce called the common touch, the ability to speak to many people about whats on their minds before they have the vaguest idea whats on their minds.about

Quindlen knows words, and she knows women.about

Quindlens writing . . . wraps the reader in the warmth and familiarity of domestic life. about