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LAURIE FRANKEL / Family Family

In Conversation 
India Allwood grew up wanting to be an actor. Armed with a stack of index cards for memorization, she goes from awkward 16-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. However, India is an adoptive mom in real life. She wants everyone to know there’s more to her family than pain and regret. So she does something you should never do — she tells a journalist the truth: it’s a bad movie. Soon she’s at the center of a media storm, battling accusations from the press and the paparazzi, from protesters on the right and advocates on the left. The one thing she knows for sure is what makes a family isn’t blood. And it isn’t love. No matter how they’re formed, the truth about family is this: it’s complicated.
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LAURIE FRANKEL is the New York Times bestselling, award-winning author of This Is How It Always Is and The Atlas of Love. Her novels have been translated into more than twenty-five languages and been optioned for film and TV. She lives in Seattle.