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You Were Meant For Me

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What do you do when you have to give up the person you love most?
Thirty-five-year-old Miranda is not an impulsive person. She’s been at Domestic Goddess magazine for eight years, she has great friends, and she’s finally moving on after a breakup. Having a baby isn’t even on her radar—until the day she discovers an abandoned newborn on the platform of a Brooklyn subway station. Rushing the little girl to the closest police station, Miranda hopes and prays she’ll be all right and that a loving family will step forward to take her.
Yet Miranda can’t seem to get the baby off her mind and keeps coming up with excuses to go check on her, until finally a family court judge asks whether she’d like to be the baby’s foster parent—maybe even adopt her. To her own surprise, Miranda jumps at the chance. But nothing could have prepared her for the ecstasy of new-mother love—or the heartbreak she faces when the baby’s father surfaces....
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“Well-written characters and fascinating plot twists will appeal to book groups and fans of women’s fiction.”—Library Journal
 
“McDonough does a fabulous job showing that being blind-sided isn’t always a bad thing. Sometimes, even the best surprises come out of it. Every facet of the book is compelling, but readers might particularly enjoy the dynamics between the heroine and the two male protagonists. The story’s effortless fluidity will have readers questioning how this inspired-by-real-events premise unfolds.”—Romantic Times
 
"With a deft, sure touch, Yona Zeldis McDonough explores the ways families are formed and how love can take you by surprise. An absorbing and soul-stirring novel."—Christina Baker Kline, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Orphan Train
 
"Abounding with warmth and charm, You Were Meant for Me, is a profoundly moving novel which explores the intensity of love and the fallout of heartbreak. It will capture your attention from the very first page and never let go."—Emily Liebert, author of When We Fall
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    • Kirkus

      August 15, 2014
      McDonough (Two of a Kind, 2013, etc.) imagines a polite tug of war with an abandoned baby at its center. Miranda Berenzweig is in her mid-30s and feeling stuck, unable to compete with her friends' promotions and relationships. Recently dumped and wading through the waters of online dating, she trades messages with photographer and consummate nice guy Evan Zuckerbrot. After a night out in Manhattan with friends, Miranda has no idea that her life is about to change when she finds a baby girl who has been abandoned on a subway platform. With no prospects beyond foster care in sight for the baby, Miranda is granted custody and put on the fast track for adoption. Evan is thrilled by her luck and eager to declare his love for both Miranda and the new baby, Celeste. When a persistent reporter persuades her to do an interview, she gains the attention of the baby's biological father, Jared Masters. Miranda, who had settled into the idea of abrupt motherhood, loses baby Celeste, now named Lily. The narrative hops among Miranda, Jared and Evan as they deal with bruised egos, broken hearts and new beginnings, while all involved parties are forced to evaluate what it means to be a parent and whether they are truly up for the task. The novel is rigidly plotted and so hung up on the hope of discovering love in unlikely places that character development falls flat. The prose is uneven, with some expertly crafted passages-most describing Miranda's culinary prowess-hiding in pages of bland dialogue and tired language. McDonough puts a relentlessly optimistic spin on what could have been a tragic headline.

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    • Library Journal

      October 1, 2014

      Miranda is a thirtysomething career woman who lives in Brooklyn and likes to hang out with her three besties in New York City--she's a bit like the Miranda of Sex and the City, even though that Miranda only moved to Brooklyn as part of a couple and under duress while this Miranda thinks Brooklyn is the place to be. The Miranda of this story also becomes a single mother by accident--but instead of giving birth, she finds the baby at a subway station. Before stumbling upon her child, she had arranged to meet a man who contacted her through a dating site. Her luck continues as he turns out to be a sweetheart and falls for her and her new charge. But when the baby's father, a sexy Blair Underwood type to whom Miranda is instantly attracted, comes forward, she stands to lose everything she never knew she wanted. VERDICT McDonough's (Two of a Kind; A Wedding in Great Neck) well-written characters and fascinating plot twists will appeal to book groups and fans of women's fiction, while the similarities that evoke Sex and the City will draw in fans who miss that show.--Karen Core, Detroit P.L.

      Copyright 2014 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

    • Booklist

      October 1, 2014
      Miranda Berenzweig has fabulous friends, a fabulous job as an editor at Domestic Goddess, and an adequate apartment in Park Slope. But before her story gets too chick-lit, she finds a baby abandoned in the subway. The baby opens up a yearning she didn't know she had, not just to find the perfect man but to have a family of her own. When no one comes forward to claim the baby, Miranda names her Celeste and adopts her. Her friends think she's making a mistake, but the steady-if-boring guy she's been seeing, Evan, is all on board. What starts as a Jennifer Weinerstyle ode to modern urban motherhood loses some of its focus when we meet Jared Masters, an African American uptown realtor who is having too much fun to settle down. When Jared learns that he is Celeste's father, he fights for her. And Miranda gives in. But then fatherhood is too much for Jared. Everyone ends up exactly where he or she belongs, and Miranda's journey is compelling, but the other loose ends are tied up a little too neatly to really satisfy.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2014, American Library Association.)

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