Today co-host Jenna Bush Hager has chosen My Other Heart by Emma Nanami Strenner (Pamela Dorman Books) as her August Read with Jenna book club pick. My Other Heart "starts in the Philadelphia airport, where Mimi, a young mother, is waiting to return home to Vietnam with her 1-year-old daughter.
"After looking away for a few moments, Mimi looks back to see her daughter has vanished, and starts to panic. Unable to come up with the words to explain what happened in English, she winds up back in Vietnam, where she spends her life searching for her long lost daughter.
"Seventeen years later, two best friends Kit and Sabrina are spending their last summer before college together searching for who they are and their family histories--all while Mimi gets a lead in her search that brings her back to Philadelphia."
"I love this book so much. It's the story of mothers, daughters, friendship. It's full of heart and full of twists. I could not put it down," Jenna said. "It's a deeply moving book about motherhood, identity and the invisible threads that connect us."
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Not Quite Dead Yet by Holly Jackson (Bantam) is the GMA Book Club pick for August. Good Morning America described the book as: "At 27, Jet has never been able to finish anything. She's dropped out of school, abandoned a promising career and ended countless relationships. But she's about to leave it all behind for a fresh start until, just as she walks in her front door, someone attacks her from behind, fracturing her skull and leaving her for dead.
"Thirty-six hours later, Jet wakes up in the hospital to devastating news. The attack has caused a bone fragment to press against her brain, and an aneurysm is forming that will soon rupture, leading to certain death. With her last remaining week, she's going to find out who murdered her."
