Family life fiction / Stories about family
Grove Press The Covenant of Water Oprahs Book Club
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New Directions Publishing Corporation Chinatown
Book SynopsisAn exquisite and intense journey through the labyrinths of Hanoi, Leningrad, and Paris—through dreams, memory, and lossTrade Review"Chinatown is a fever dream, a hallucination, a loop in time and life that Thuan masterfully deploys to capture the disorienting and debilitating effects of migration, racism, and a broken heart in both Viet Nam and France. I was completely immersed in this spellbinding novel." -- Viet Thanh Nguyen"Thu?n, in her English-language debut, delivers a powerful examination of a woman’s remembering and forgetting....Comprised of a single, breathless paragraph interrupted only by the occasional excerpt from I’m Yellow, her novel in progress about a man who leaves his family, Thu?n’s tightly coiled narrative paints a portrait of a woman desperately trying to make sense of her past (“You must forget in order to live,” she claims). As the woman’s thoughts spin round and round, Thu?n draws the reader ever closer to the question at the core of the novel: Is it actually possible to forget in order to live? This heralds a remarkable new voice." -- Publishers Weekly"[A] delightfully prickly and defiantly inscrutable act of resistance: against simple narratives, against our aversion to what we don’t understand, and against anything soullessly practical." -- Chelsea Leu - Astra Magazine"A virtuosic stream-of-consciousness mapping of the afterlives of diaspora." -- The New Yorker"Like Duras, Thuân is an intensely poetic writer. She relies so heavily on repetition that Chinatown's text often seems to have refrains, like a ghazal or villanelle would. In many writers' hands, this strategy could be deadening, but Thuân excels at creating momentum through language, and Nguyen An Lý translates that momentum beautifully. Chinatown exerts a near-tidal pull on the reader." -- Lily Meyer - NPR"Surprising and brilliant...an astonishing work of sharp wit and profound tragedy that refuses to be flattened into a single representation." -- Lamorna Ash - Times Literary Supplement"Thuân recreates the rich texture of the past as it exists for those severed from their origins, a layering of memories, historical eras, and personal milestones that shifts and melds." -- Alice Stephens - Washington Independent"Chinatown is a breathless work of fiction that whirls through dreams and memory and places like Hanoi, Leningrad, and Paris, where the narrator (a Vietnamese immigrant) lives with her son. The book is drenched with intense longing and it has a Marguerite Durasian nouveau roman, no-nonsense kind of vibe. It made me dizzy and lovesick at once." -- Shane Anderson - Spike Art Magazine"Novels about the immigrant experience aren’t renowned for mirth—too often they are drearily po-faced or blandly sentimental; so Chinatown’s sardonic facetiousness is refreshing." -- Tribune Magazine"Simultaneously expansive and airtight." -- Thúy Ðinh - Words Without Borders"The premise of Chinatown promises claustrophobia: a Vietnamese woman trapped in the Paris metro by a suspect package, possibly a bomb. Thu?n’s novel, brought to us by Nguy?n An Lý’s sweeping, melodic phrasing, is anything but sedentary: who knew reverie could be this fast-moving, this suspenseful? Below the surface, waiting, feeling the uneasy gaze of her fellow Parisians, our narrator travels back through her memories—of her son, of Hanoi, of his absent, longed-for father—and, in so doing, gifts us constraint’s solace: that memories might bring one back to a sense of self, against all the odds." -- jury of the 2023 National Translation Award in Prose
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New Directions Publishing Corporation The Bloater
Book SynopsisA rediscovered literary classic, The Bloater is a rollicking hothouse novel where love and repulsion are two paths to the same abyssTrade Review"Uncommonly good." -- The Guardian"Writing like this?—?a bit of Rhys, a bit of Knut Hamsun, a bit of Wyndham Lewis, a bit of Muriel Spark, overlaying the everlasting Shakespeare/Austen/?Brontë/George Eliot marriage drama?—?is far too beautiful and accomplished to be kept off the shelf. It catches like nothing else the smogs, the rodentine genes, the murky post-War grays, the lurking sexual violence of London, between Hangover Square and Carnaby Street." -- Michael Hofmann - Poetry"The Bloater delights us by its wit, relish, and new-minted metaphors." -- Daily Telegraph"Redolent of Swinging-Sixties London, Tonks’s brilliant sex comedy reveals sobering depths beneath its flashing surface... the revival of this beguiling 1967 novel restores a truly original voice to the shelves; a must." -- David Wright - Library Journal"Passion and revulsion, tenderness and cruelty, worldly sophistication and schoolgirl naiveté—outside of the classic will-they-won’t-they set-up of an unlikely romantic pairing, it’s Tonks’s embrace of oppositional forces that provides the source of the novel’s tension, as well as its levity…The joy of reading The Bloater is in the vitality of Tonks’s sentences, which are teeming with sensory particulars and surprising, delightful connections…its republication seems a small miracle." -- Madelaine Lucas - Astra Magazine"It is about flirtation as a method of self-organization, and a crush as a method of self-torture. All of The Bloater, however—every single sentence—is funny." -- Audrey Wollen - The New Yorker
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Random House USA Inc The Music Shop
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Random House USA Inc The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy
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Little, Brown Book Group The Crowded Street Virago Modern Classics
Book Synopsis''They promise us all sorts of things,'' she said, ''happiness, success, adventure - don''t you know? Then suddenly we find ourselves left alone in a dull crowded street with no one caring and our lives unneeded, and all the fine things that we meant to do, like toys that a child has laid aside . . . ''This is the story of Muriel Hammond, at twenty living within the suffocating confines of Edwardian middle-class society in Marshington, a Yorkshire village. A career is forbidden to her. Pretty, but not pretty enough, she fails to achieve the one thing required of her - to find a suitable husband. Then comes the First World War, a watershed which tragically revolutionises the lives of her generation. But for Muriel it offers work, friendship, freedom, and one last chance to find a special kind of happiness . . .Winifred Holtby (1891-1935), novelist, journalist and critic, was born at Rudstone, Yorkshire. With the exception of South Riding, this is her mos
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Patricia Sands Lost at Sea
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Campanile Publishing The American Governess
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FriesenPress Harvest of Fear
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J. Gisela Kingley Unintended Consequences
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Random House USA Inc Celine
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Random House USA Inc Stay with Me
Book SynopsisA New York Times Notable Book • “A thoroughly contemporary—and deeply moving—portrait of a marriage.... In the lineage of great works by Chinua Achebe and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.” —The New York Times Book Review Ilesa, Nigeria. Ever since they first met and fell in love at university, Yejide and Akin have agreed: polygamy is not for them. But four years into their marriage—after consulting fertility doctors and healers, and trying strange teas and unlikely cures—Yejide is still not pregnant. She assumes she still has time—until her in-laws arrive on her doorstep with a young woman they introduce as Akin’s second wife. Furious, shocked, and livid with jealousy, Yejide knows the only way to save her marriage is to get pregnant. Which, finally, she does—but at a cost far greater than she could have dared to imagine. The unforgettable story of a marriage as see
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St. Martin's Griffin Fly Away
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Flatiron Books Nine Perfect Strangers
Book SynopsisNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, now a Hulu original series If three characters were good in Big Little Lies, nine are even better in Nine Perfect Strangers. Lisa Scottoline, The New York Times Book ReviewFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Big Little LiesCould ten days at a health resort really change you forever? In Liane Moriarty's latest page-turner, nine perfect strangers are about to find out...Nine people gather at a remote health resort. Some are here to lose weight, some are here to get a reboot on life, some are here for reasons they can't even admit to themselves. Amidst all of the luxury and pampering, the mindfulness and meditation, they know these ten days might involve some real work. But none of them could imagine just how challenging the next ten days are going to be.Frances Welty, the formerly best-selling romantic novelist, arrives at
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Flatiron Books The Guest Book
Book SynopsisInstant New York Times BestsellerLonglisted for Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence2020 New England Society Book Award Winner for FictionThe Guest Book is monumental in a way that few novels dare attempt. The Washington PostThe thought-provoking new novel by New York Times bestselling author Sarah BlakeAn exquisitely written, poignant family saga that illuminates the great divide, the gulf that separates the rich and poor, black and white, Protestant and Jew. Spanning three generations, The Guest Book deftly examines the life and legacy of one unforgettable family as they navigate the evolving social and political landscape from Crockett's Island, their family retreat off the coast of Maine. Blake masterfully lays bare the memories and mistakes each generation makes while coming to terms with what it means to inherit the past.
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Picador USA Transit
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Holt McDougal Apples Never Fall
Book Synopsis#1 New York Times Bestseller ? A Peacock Original TV SeriesNow Streaming! ? Gripping.?Oprah.com? From Liane Moriarty, the bestselling author of Big Little Lies and Nine Perfect Strangers, comes Apples Never Fall, a novel that looks at marriage, siblings, and how the people we love the most can hurt us the deepest.The Delaney family love one another dearlyit's just that sometimes they want to murder each other . . .If your mother was missing, would you tell the police? Even if the most obvious suspect was your father?This is the dilemma facing the four grown Delaney siblings.The Delaneys are fixtures in their community. The parents, Stan and Joy, are the envy of all of their friends. They're killers on the tennis court, and off it their chemistry is palpable. But after fifty years of marriage, they've finally sold their famed tennis academy and are ready to start wh
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St Martin's Press The Great Alone
Book Synopsis#1 New York Times Instant BestsellerIn Kristin Hannah's The Great Alone, a desperate family seeks a new beginning in the near-isolated wilderness of Alaska only to find that their unpredictable environment is less threatening than the erratic behavior found in human nature.Alaska, 1974. Ernt Allbright came home from the Vietnam War a changed and volatile man. When he loses yet another job, he makes the impulsive decision to move his wife and daughter north where they will live off the grid in America's last true frontier.Cora will do anything for the man she loves, even if means following him into the unknown. Thirteen-year-old Leni, caught in the riptide of her parents' passionate, stormy relationship, has little choice but to go along, daring to hope this new land promises her family a better future.In a wild, remote corner of Alaska, the Allbrights find a fiercely independent community of strong men and even stronger wom
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Henry Holt & Company Inc Lets Not Do That Again
Book SynopsisHilarious, suspenseful, and whip smart.Cynthia D''Aprix SweeneyMeet the Harrisons!A mother running for Senate, a son running from his problems, and a daughter running straight into trouble...From Grant Ginder, the author of The People We Hate at the Wedding, comes a poignant, funny, and slyly beguiling novel which proves that, like democracy, family is a messy and fragile thing perfect for fans of Veep's biting humor, the family drama of Succession, and the joys of Kevin Wilson's Nothing to See Here.Nancy Harrison is running for Senate, and she's going to win, goddamnit. Not that that's her slogan, although it could be. She's said all the right things. Passed all the right legislation. Chapped her lips kissing babies. There's just one problem: her grown children.Greta and Nick Harrison are adrift. Nick is floundering in his attempts to write a musical about the life of Joan Didion
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