Good People by Patmeena Sabit

I really enjoyed the way the author brought this story to life, with alternating first-person narratives by a variety of "people" who were friends or acquaintances of the Saraf family.

 
From Good Reads:

Like a literary game of ping-pong, Good People compels the reader to reconsider what might have happened even on the previous page. Told through a kaleidoscope of perspectives, it is a riveting, provocative, and haunting story of family - sisters, brothers, mothers, fathers, and the communities that claim us as family in difficult times.

Perhaps the book was just a little bit too long; toward the end when I realized what was going to happen, I thought that the author may have wrapped it up a little sooner. But I was never bored reading this and at times, it was a real page-turner, as the reader waited to find out what was going on. And learning the story through accounts told by a varied group of observers, many with such different opinions and perspectives.

More Than Enough by Anna Quindlen

 

I am an Anna Quindlen fan so was excited when this book finally came in and I did enjoy it.  

The story starts as Polly gets a letter from a 23 and Me type service that a match has been found!

She is flabbergasted because never would she have guessed that she has a cousin, or other distant relative that she is unaware of. So she starts the exploration. At the same time, we learn that she has been trying to conceive for years....unsuccessfully.

So this book takes us through Polly's travails with some humor and pathos and also a good bit of sadness. Polly has a group of friends, in a book club that never reads the book, who are her "rocks" through the experiences she deals with, so it's a good read about friendship, too.

I won't give anything away, but I will say that I was not surprised by anything at the end.