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Fun for the Whole Family: A Novel Audiobook
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“An engaging, heartwarming tale with larger-than-life characters readers are sure to connect with” (USA Today), from the bestselling author of The Unsinkable Greta James.
“A glorious novel of love in all its forms—familial, romantic, lost, and found. Jennifer E. Smith is a ray of literary sunshine.”—Jenny Jackson, author of Pineapple Street
The four Endicott siblings—Gemma, Connor, Roddy, and Jude—were once inseparable, a bond created by the absence of their dazzling, mercurial mother, who would return for a few weeks each summer to whisk them off on sprawling road trips around the country.
Decades later, the unthinkable has happened: the Endicotts haven’t spoken in years . . . until an out-of-the-blue text arrives from Jude, now a famous actress, summoning them to a small town in North Dakota. They’re each at a crossroads: Gemma, who put her own ambitions aside to raise the others, now isn’t sure if she wants to be a mother herself; Connor, a celebrated novelist, is floundering after his recent divorce and suffering from an epic case of writer’s block; and Roddy, at the tail end of a professional soccer career, is dangerously close to losing his future husband for the chance at one last season.
Jude is the only Endicott who seems to have it all together—but appearances can be deceiving. As the weekend unfolds, and the siblings wrestle with their shared past and uncertain futures, they’ll discover that Jude has been keeping three secrets . . . each of which could change everything.
A captivating journey and an ode to forgiveness that takes readers across all fifty states, Fun for the Whole Family brims with heart and resonates long after the final page.
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"Smith has crafted a story about mothers and daughters, fathers and children, grief, happiness, and healing. . . .A well-told story with evocative prose that bares—and bears—the ragged emotions that accompany a journey to healing."
— Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
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Fun for the Whole Family is a glorious novel of love in all its forms—familial, romantic, lost, and found. Jennifer E. Smith is a ray of literary sunshine.
— Jenny Jackson, bestselling author of Pineapple Street -
Fun for the Whole Family is a captivating and joyful novel about siblings and family and the ties that bind us together. This is Jennifer E. Smith at her absolute best.
— Laura Dave, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Thing He Told Me -
Fun for the Whole Family
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Fun for the Whole Family is a glorious novel of love in all its forms—familial, romantic, lost, and found. Jennifer E. Smith is a ray of literary sunshine.
— Jenny Jackson, New York Times bestselling author of Pineapple Street -
The Unsinkable Greta James
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Warm, funny, and bursting with heart, [it’s] exactly the book you want to read: a pitch-perfect story about the ways we recover love in the strangest of places.
— Rebecca Serle, New York Times bestselling author of In Five Years -
Smith’s characters are drawn with a generosity that allows them to be wrong but also right, loving but also prone to missteps, and ultimately deserving of a resolution that’s full of hope.
— Linda Holmes, New York Times bestselling author of Evvie Drake Starts Over -
Beautiful, moving, hopeful: I loved this book from beginning to end, and will be thinking about it for a long time. It’s a total triumph.
— Emily Stone, author of Always, In December -
Thoughtful and tender and true . . . perfectly captures the messiness of loving and being loved . . . Smith has written a gripping relationship story that’s also a perceptive exploration of what it means to dream. I devoured it.
— Janelle Brown, New York Times bestselling author of I’ll Be You
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About Jennifer E. Smith
Jennifer E. Smith is the author of several young-adult novels, and her work has been translated into thirty-three languages. She earned a master’s degree in creative writing from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland.
About Lauren Graham
Lauren Graham is an actor, writer, and producer best known for her roles on the critically acclaimed series Gilmore Girls and Parenthood, and an executive producer on the Disney+ show The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers, in which she also stars. She is the three-time New York Times bestselling author of several books. She has been a successful actor for nearly three decades, appearing in TV, film, and on Broadway. She holds a BA degree in English from Barnard College and an MFA in acting from Southern Methodist University.