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Immediate Family

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A heartfelt exploration of the complexities of family, identity, and the unbreakable bond between siblings.

On the day of her brother’s wedding, our narrator struggles to find the right words for her toast. Despite a recent fracture in their relationship, her brother, Danny, has asked her to give a speech. As she reflects on their shared childhood, she realizes their story refracts in unexpected ways.

When she was nine years old, she traveled with her parents to Thailand to meet her brother, six years her junior. They grew up together like any other siblings in Northern California, but as she holds their story up to the light, she grapples with the complexities of their bond.

Through a heartfelt letter addressed to Danny, she attempts a full accounting of their years together, invoking everything from classic Victorian adoption plots to documents from Danny’s case file. She also confesses to the parts of her life she has kept from him, including her own struggle with infertility.

In Immediate Family, a tender and fierce debut novel, Ashley Nelson Levy explores the enduring connection between two siblings and the intricacies of motherhood, infertility, race, and the many definitions of family.

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**A *goop* Book Club Selection and Best Book of the Year **• **Amazon Editors’ Choice** **“This unsparing and absorbing family portrait broke my heart and remade it a hundred times over.” —Rachel Khong, author of *Goodbye, Vitamin*** It is the day of her brother’s wedding and our narrator is still struggling with her toast. Despite a recent fracture between them, her brother, Danny, has asked her to give a speech and she doesn’t know where to begin, how to put words to their kind of love. She was nine years old when she traveled with her parents to Thailand to meet her brother, six years her junior. They grew up together like any other siblings, and shared a bucolic childhood in Northern California. Yet when she holds their story up to the light, it refracts in ways she doesn’t expect. What follows is a heartfelt letter addressed to Danny and an attempt at a full accounting of their years growing up, invoking everything from the classic Victorian adoption plot to childless women in literature to documents from Danny’s case file. It’s also a confession of sorts to the parts of her life that she has kept from him, including her own struggle with infertility. And as the hours until the wedding wane, she uncovers the words that can’t and won’t be said aloud. In *Immediate Family* , a tender and fierce debut novel, Ashley Nelson Levy explores the enduring bond between two siblings and the complexities of motherhood, infertility, race, and the many definitions of family.

Book Author

Ashley Nelson Levy

Format

Ebooks

ISBN-13

9780374601430

Language

English

Pages

297

Publication Date

08-02-2021

Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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