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2022 USA Today Best Seller
A 2021 Kirkus Reviews’ Best Indie Book of the Year
2021 Reader’s Favorite: Gold Medal, Fiction
SheReads 2021 Book Awards: Best Book Club Pick
“It is hard to imagine a better novel for a book club discussion…A thoughtful and gripping family tale that will haunt readers long after finishing it.”
—Kirkus Reviews, STARRED
“…a touching and provocative novel about the collisions of the emotional and legal meanings of family.”
—Foreword Reviews
2022 American Fiction Awards Winner in Family Saga, General Fiction, and LGBTQ+ Fiction
USA Today Best Seller
A 2021 Kirkus Reviews’ Best Indie Book of the Year2021 Reader’s Favorite: Gold Medal, Fiction SheReads 2021 Book Awards: Best Book Club Pick
2022 American Fiction Awards Winner in Family Saga, General Fiction, and LGBTQ+ Fiction
“A heartfelt exploration of what it means to be a family, He Gets That From Me is a fascinating story of strength, humanity, love, and perseverance. This is one you won’t stop thinking about.”
―Allison Winn Scotch, best-selling author of Cleo McDougal Regrets Nothing
“A piercing, mesmerizing look into the fragility and resiliency of the human experience . . . a bold page-turner that will leave you breathless with anticipation. With He Gets That From Me, Friedland invites you to ask yourself the questions you didn’t even know you needed to answer―about family, forgiveness, sacrifice, and love. An absolute home run.”
―Amy Impellizzeri, award-winning author of Lemongrass Hope and I Know How This Ends
“Compulsively readable and ferociously insightful . . . He Gets That From Me cuts to the core of what it means to be family. An unforgettable book of our times.”
―Jamie Brenner, author of The Forever Summer and Blush
“He Gets That from Me is a potent reminder that we can’t always choose what life hands us―but we can decide whether to rise to the occasion when faced with seemingly impossible choices. With expert plotting and unwavering empathy toward her characters, Jacqueline Friedland has written a novel as unexpected as it is riveting. I read it in a single sitting.”
―Camille Pagán, best-selling author of This Won’t End Well
“He Gets That from Me takes on timeless questions about parenthood and our presumptions about birth, biology, and family. Describing a modern-day arrangement between two dads and a surrogate, the story opens our eyes to the many ways a family can be created while also telling a suspenseful narrative full of unexpected thrills that keep the reader wanting more. A moving story throughout, it ends with a twist that will leave you thinking about the book long after you’ve finished reading it.”
―Melissa Brisman, Esq., reproductive attorney
“Friedland has written characters who are so compelling and so lovable, and then she put them in the middle of such a suspenseful, entirely believable story of what can happen when modern-day technology complicates the most basic relationships between parents and a child. My heart was pounding as I read, far into the night. It’s a must-read.”
―Maddie Dawson, best-selling author of Matchmaking for Beginners
“Jacqueline Friedland creates a host of complex characters in this nuanced, compelling exploration of what it really means to be a family, and why we should maybe think twice before heading to ancestry.com.”
―Laura Hankin, author of Happy & You Know It and A Special Place for Women
