The People We Become

Description

Olivia has spent her life being needed.

As the oldest daughter in a complicated Indiana family, she learned early how to read a room, anticipate other people’s needs, and become the person everyone else could rely on. But when she leaves for Los Angeles at eighteen to become a writer, Olivia discovers that distance does not automatically free her from the roles that shaped her.

In California, she is drawn into first love, ambition, friendship, addiction, and the intoxicating feeling of being chosen. But as old wounds resurface and the life she has built begins to unravel, Olivia is forced to confront the question at the center of everything: who is she when she stops holding everyone else together?

Intimate, reflective, and emotionally honest, The People We Become is a literary coming-of-age novel about family, identity, self-abandonment, recovery, and the painful work of becoming someone new.