All Happy Families, coming in Summer 2009 from Avon Harper Collins
As a wilted flower child, Mira Zielinski has never been one to follow orders. Not from her husband, not from her boss -
not even from her oncologist. Mira has her own idea about handling her newly diagnosed breast cancer, and it does not
involve hopping up on the operating table. Her grown children will no doubt object -- when she gets around to telling
them.
As they come home for the weekend of Mira and Max's thirty-fifth wedding anniversary party, her kids harbor some secret
trials. Middle child Ivan's lifelong desire to be a songwriter is withering on the vine after years of futility and his
dating haplessness is so familiar, it's almost a family joke. The impulsive and very young youngest child Irina will
walk in the door with a surprise groom, though she's already looking for the escape hatch in her shiny new marriage.
As for the oldest, Katya, let's just say that it would be a relief if her husband's big secret were just the affair
she suspects he's having. As these trials unfold, certain family truths come to light but will they shake Mira's resolve?
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