Jenna In John Steinbeck's 'Unclaimed Baggage'

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In Unclaimed Baggage, you meet Jenna, an unconventional heroine. She’s quirky and thoughtful and smart. She’s beautiful in ways that often go unnoticed. She’s a giver surrounded by takers. When Jenna moves home to help care for her dying stepfather, she ends up taking care of everyone - from her narcissistic twin sister who considers herself the baby in the family to her mother whose has a Peter Pan complex and leaves Jenna to do the parenting.

While juggling these responsibilities and struggling to say goodbye to the only father she has ever known, Jenna unearths a family secret that manages to disrupt her already complicated life. And at what seems like the worst possible time, Jenna falls in love with a man who turns out to be the first

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