Set in 2009, The Making of Us follows three adults who were conceived anonymously via sperm donation in the UK and find each other through a donor sibling registry. Lydia, a wealthy self-made millionaire living alone in London who carries emotional scars from a traumatic childhood; Dean, a confused 21-year-old single father struggling after his […]
Tech millionaire Miles Cookson is diagnosed with a fatal, hereditary condition and realizes that the nine children he fathered as a sperm donor two decades earlier may have inherited it. Determined to warn them and include them in his estate, Miles sets out to find them. He connects first with Chloe, an aspiring documentary filmmaker
Paige Robson is a geneticist, professionally obsessed with the science of inheritance and, it turns out, personally entangled in it too. She conceived her 8-year-old son Miles using an anonymous sperm donor in the late 2000s. Now she’s navigating a new relationship, her estranged father who has reappeared, and a son whose questions about his
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Skye Ellison is 38, Black, queer, and has spent her adult life avoiding anything that might require her to stay in one place. She runs a successful travel company, lives out of a suitcase, and returns to her hometown of West Philly only occasionally to decompress before heading back out. When she was 26 and
At Lincoln High, extracurricular superstar Stacey expects to cruise to student body president. Then two unexpected challengers enter: Julia, a French-Canadian transfer student perceived as Latina who gains Latino votes despite not knowing her own heritage; and Tony, a stoner whose platform is removing the school’s chocolate milk ban. What follows is a satirical, cutthroat
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Donor-conceived Quinn, who loves her two mums and brother Olly but often feels like the odd one out since she’s the only one with red hair and green eyes and would rather quietly draw than participate in her family’s favorite outdoor activities like surfing. When her mums reveal that she and Olly have sixteen donor
Twenty-three-year-old August moves to New York City to finish college, cynical and emotionally guarded. She moves into a Flatbush apartment with an eccentric found family: Niko (a trans psychic with genuinely accurate powers), his artist girlfriend Myla, and Wes (a tattoo artist). August works at a 24-hour pancake diner and plans to keep her life
Eleven-year-old Maizy Chen travels from Los Angeles with her single mother to spend the summer in Last Chance, Minnesota, to help care for her ailing grandfather and work at the Golden Palace, the family’s Chinese restaurant. Maizy, who hasn’t seen her grandparents since age eight and experiences tension between them and her mother, gradually gets
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This picture book is about a child whose family grows over time, beginning with just the child and their mummy, then expanding to include Jani (who becomes the child’s other mummy), David (mummy’s best friend and the child’s known donor), David’s partner Elizabeth, and eventually a new baby who is their half-sibling. A gentle refrain
Seventeen-year-old Jack, an openly and unapologetically gay teen at a prestigious New York City private school, is known throughout school for his active sex life, though the gossip is often far more exaggerated than the reality. When Jack starts writing a frank sex advice column for an online news blog alongside his best friends Jenna
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