Finding Georgina

A mother finds her daughter who was kidnapped 14 years earlier in the satisfying latest from Faulkner (What Makes a Family). Harper Broussard is a New Orleans veterinarian living with her teenage daughter, Jojo, in the ancestral home inherited by her ex-husband, Remy. There have been times over the past 14 years that Harper has believed that she’s seen Georgina, her oldest daughter who was kidnapped when she was two, and now she becomes certain a teenage girl working in a local coffee shop is her long-lost daughter. When police question the girl’s mother, Sharon Kohen, she confesses to kidnapping Georgina, whom she initially believed was her deceased child and then came to love as if she were her own. While Harper is elated that her daughter has been cared for all these years, she is disturbed that Georgina doesn’t remember her and has been going by the name of Lilla Kohen, the name of Sharon’s dead child. Georgina, an intelligent, independent young woman, is devastated by Sharon’s betrayal and thrust into the arms of a family she can’t recall. Harper struggles with her overprotective nature and her Catholic faith, which is at odds with Georgina’s Jewish upbringing. Through multiple points of view, Faulkner crafts a cast of flawed, realistic characters, and the story’s intense emotion will resonate with readers. (Mar.)