Laurie Frankel's The Atlas of Love is about a college student whose life takes a different turn through the arrival of a baby. The summary says: "When Jill Mattison abruptly becomes both pregnant and single at the end of one spring semester, she and her two closest friends plunge headlong into an experiment in tri-parenting, tri-schooling, and tri-habitating as graduate students in Seattle. In a possibly crazy leap of faith, they acquire a big house, a new dog, and lots of tightly scheduled literature courses in fervent hope it will be enough to make a family. Soon, these friends find their lives start to mirror their books, their books start to mirror their lives, and their alternative family becomes just as complicated as the traditional kind. And one tiny baby named Atlas upends and uplifts their entire world." The Atlas of Love is out in August. You can check out the first chapter at the author's website.

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