Book guide
The Things We Do for Love
A woman longing for a daughter meets a teenage girl who has never truly had a mother.
GenresContemporary Fiction
About The Things We Do for Love
After years of infertility and the collapse of her marriage, Angela DeSaria Malone returns to her coastal hometown and the loud, loving Italian family she left behind. There she meets seventeen-year-old Lauren Ribido, a bright girl being failed by an absent, alcoholic mother. Their growing bond offers each something she has been missing and reshapes both women’s ideas of motherhood, family and love.
Reading signals
- Spice
- None
- Darkness
- Dark
- Pacing
- Balanced
Content warnings
- pregnancy loss
- pregnancy termination
- death
- child death
- emotional abuse
- physical abuse
- child abuse
- substance use
- addiction
- gender discrimination
- sexual content
