After a near-stranger dies in their small town, a tightknit group of friends can no longer ignore their long-dormant desires and unfulfilled dreams—a moving debut about the complicated joys of chosen family.

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Praise for Like Family

  • “Like Family is so warm, joyful, smart, and nuanced. Its depictions of friendship and middle age and marriage and the beautiful messiness of life feel familiar in the best ways, but also fresh in the best ways. I absolutely love this novel and can’t wait to share it with everyone I know.” 

    Curtis Sittenfeld, bestselling author of Prep and Show Don't Tell

  • “Once I entered the world of Like Family, I didn’t want to leave. I loved these three couples and their tangles of children. The way these characters renegotiate what it means to love—and how to not just name their connections to one another, but to keep those names soft and pliable, expansive with compassion—makes this novel feel contemporary in the best way: it is an answer to and an answering of the questions of this moment.”

    Ann Napolitano, bestselling author of Hello Beautiful

  • “Like Family cracked my heart open wider and wider until I found myself bawling in the bathtub. This beautiful novel about midlife longings and complicated love, the families we're born into and the families we create, made me think more deeply about every single one of my relationships. In the end, Like Family opened my mind just as widely as it opened my heart. What else is art for than this?”

    Glennon Doyle, bestselling author of Untamed

  • “This novel is a gift. I could not put it down, and then I was so sad when it was over. The world depicted in Like Family is the world I want to live in. It is the most beautiful love letter to female friendship I've ever encountered in fiction. A must-read.”

    J. Courtney Sullivan, bestselling author of The Cliffs

  • “There’s a tragedy at the center of Like Family, but what unfolds in its wake is a story about people in flux, trying to figure out who they’ve become and how to stay connected to the ones they love. White writes with so much compassion and insight, beautifully capturing the weight of what we leave unsaid—even with those we’re closest to. Moving and funny and big-hearted, Like Family is a gorgeous debut.”

    Essie Chambers, bestselling author of Swift River

  • “A tender portrait of how we claim, wound, and love one another. At turns heartwarming, funny, and even cutting, but always true—a lot like family.”

    Sara Novic, bestselling author of True Biz

  • “White's tender, wise debut portrays the modern American family as inclusive, imperfect, and ever-expanding, and demonstrates that we're at our best when we're at our most open-hearted. This is a book to escape into, and a boundless family to relate to.”

    J. Ryan Stradal, bestselling author of Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club

  • “Like Family feels like a favorite, worn sweater, wrapping you in the exact embrace you get from your favorite novels, as if Erin O. White has been publishing for years. I can't wait to read what she writes next.”

    Steven Rowley, bestselling author of The Celebrants