Reviewed by Jessica Withers
Being a stepmother is one of the most difficult roles a woman can choose—my sister stepmoms will agree with that. Then stir in guilt because you know that you caused the breakup of your husband’s first marriage, sprinkle in a five-year-old stepson who “accurately estimates your body mass index while you are halfway through a piece of chocolate cheesecake,” and top with the death of your newborn daughter from SIDS. Whew, makes my stepmother trials pale in comparison! But that is the life of Emilia Greenleaf Woolf, protagonist of Ayelet Waldman’s Love and Other Impossible Pursuits.
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