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A haunting portrait of what happens when ambition, grief, and guilt collide. Some books break your heart. Others help you pick up the pieces. A Fine Layer of Dust does both.
After one irreversible moment tears two families apart, everyone must confront the impossible choices that shaped them. This…
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Jake and Sophia already have a beautiful healthy teenage daughter when Sophia decides she wants to become a surrogate for a couple unable to conceive. Jake isn’t happy, but he tries to support her to the best of his abilities (you may well want to yell at him a few times). The family dynamics shift and re-shift multiple times, and Jake makes many a mistake along the way. Sophia seems almost unbelievably good, but turns out to be very human indeed. And Emily, their changeable, idealistic teenager is written as believably as all of the adults, which is always a…
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