{"product_id":"the-second-daughter-j-jeffrey-9781480043213","title":"The Second Daughter","description":"\u003cp\u003eWINNER HONORABLE MENTION at the New England Book Festival!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eYou\u003c\/i\u003e try turning out all right after you overhear your mother wishing you hadn't been born.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt had started out well. Umbrellas tangled. A storybook romance followed. A wonderful wedding. A beautiful, sweet first daughter. They were complete, a family, happy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd then they went and had another daughter.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer charming and witty fraud of a father Theodore starts disappearing, then worse, coming back. Her once allegedly sweet older sister Regina angrily resents her, and the sisters are at constant war. Her poor harried mother Helen is so busy what-iffing about the life she might have had that she overlooks the life she is actually having. Everyone blames Debra for pretty much \u003ci\u003eeverything\u003c\/i\u003e as the family slowly, then quickly, then one day explosively disintegrates. Along the way there are secrets and lies, heartbreaks and betrayals, plus the dramatic unexpected death of a central character at a pivotal moment. Debra, now a young woman, finds herself living awkwardly alone with her embittered mother when the phone rings-and her mother's secret past suddenly crashes back into the present. Their life may be about to change forever; or rather, perhaps, revert back to what it should have been all along.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut not exactly because of that phone call, as it turns out.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBecause of the remarkable second daughter. For what Debra Gale has is unyielding determination. What she has is an irrepressible capacity to love.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnd now at last what she has is a chance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe complex dynamics of a changing family. Mother, daughters, sisters, and the father who both divides and unifies them. That dramatic unexpected death, plus a fair amount of banana cream pie. Welcome to \u003ci\u003eThe Second Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e: a funny but poignant, unusual but beautiful love story.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e J. Jeffrey\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1480043214\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781480043213\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Createspace Independent Publishing Platform\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/19\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 274\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.71lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.58d","brand":"J. Jeffrey","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48485316624639,"sku":"9781480043213","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_dff0a1c7-7373-40e9-8edc-fcdbb0f1c15c.jpg?v=1778049117","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-second-daughter-j-jeffrey-9781480043213","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}