More Than Enough by Anna Quindlen

 

High school English teacher Polly Goodman can talk about everything and anything with the women in her book club, which is why they’ve become her closest friends and, along with her veterinarian husband, the bedrock of her life. Her students, her fraught relationship with her mother, her struggles with IVF—Polly’s book club friends have heard it all.

But when they give Polly an ancestry test kit as a joke, the results match her with a stranger. Despite it seeming clear that this match is a mistake, Polly cannot help but comb through her own family history for answers. Then, when it seems that the book club circle of four will become three, Polly learns how friendships can change your life in the most profound ways.

Written with Anna Quindlen’s trademark warmth, humor, and insight into the power of love and hope, More Than Enough explores how we find ourselves again and again through the relationships that define us.

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About The Author

 Anna Quindlen is the author of the bestselling novels Blessings and Rise and Shine, amongst others, and of the non-fiction titles Living Out Loud, Thinking Out Loud and A Short Guide to a Happy Life. Her New York Times column 'Public and Private' won a Pulitzer Prize in 1992. She is currently a columnist for Newsweek and lives with her husband and children in New York.

 

My Review

Polly Goodman sounds like the teacher we all wish we had, she is beloved by her students. She has wonderful friends, and unread book club, a loving husband, and much more.
We follow her when her friends give her a DNA test, and we are there when she finds out all of the results, secrets fall.
There is love and loss, fertility problems, and acceptance, dementia. There are a lot of topics here and we travel through Polly's life life with the good and the bad.
I did enjoy how this book wrapped up with answers, big surprises!
I received this book through Net Galley and the Publisher Random House, and was not required to give a positive review.