Family Family: A Novel by Laurie Frankel books and Ellen Ng are three

and Ellen Ng are three teenagers drawn together by their shared sense of alienation and desire for something different

And while Darcy’s first instinct might be to hole herself up in her childhood bedroom

The Universal Humanitarian Church is

and Diamond Newberry is learning how to drive

are hired to sail two women to a remote island in the South Pacific

Family Family: A Novel by Laurie Frankel books and Ellen Ng are threeIndia Allwood grew up wanting to be an actor. Armed with a stack of index cards (for research line memorization make shift confetti), she goes from awkward sixteen year old to Broadway ingenue to TV superhero. Her new movie is a prestige picture about adoption, but its spin is the same old tired story of tragedy. India is an adoptive mom in real life though. She wants everyone to know theres more to her family than pain and regret. So she does