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The Birthdays

by Heidi Pitlor · 2007

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Reuniting to celebrate their father's seventy-fifth birthday, the Miller siblings, each of whom is expecting first children of their own, struggle with difficult life challenges, from the eldest's confinement in a wheelchair after a devastating accident, to the middle son's anticipation of twins, to the pregnant youngest daughter's single status.

Setting
2000s2000sMore like thisLess of this
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adult
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medium · 368 pages

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