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"A tender and fierce debut novel that explores of the bond between two siblings-one the biological child and one adopted-and the complexities of motherhood, infertility, race, and the many definitions of family"-- Provided by publisher.

The narrator was nine years old when she traveled with her parents to Thailand to meet her brother, six years her junior. They grew up together like any other siblings, and shared bucolic childhood in Northern California. Yet when she holds their story up to the light, it refracts in ways she doesn't expect. Now, on the day of her brother's wedding, Danny has asked her to give a speech. She doesn't know where to begin, how to put words to their kind of love. So she writes a letter, a confession of sorts to the parts of her life that she has kept from him. As the hours until the wedding wane, she uncovers the words that can't and won't be said aloud. -- adapted from jacket

Brothers and sisters > Fiction.

Adopted children > Fiction.

Families > Fiction.

Intercountry adoption > Fiction.

Wedding speeches > Fiction.

California > Fiction.