Family life fiction / Stories about family
St Martin's Press Shoulder Season
Book SynopsisNamed a Best Book of Summer by Good Morning America CNN Parade EW Travel & Leisure PopSugar New York Post BuzzFeed Brit & Co SheReads Women.comA dazzling portrait of a young woman coming into her own, the youthful allure of sex, drugs, and rock and roll, and what we loseand gainwhen we leave home.ONCE IN A LIFETIME, YOU CAN HAVE THE TIME OF YOUR LIFEThe small town of Lake Geneva, Wisconsin is an unlikely location for a Playboy Resort, and nineteen-year old Sherri Taylor is an unlikely bunny. Growing up in neighboring East Troy, Sherri plays the organ at the local church and has never felt comfortable in her own skin. But when her parents die in quick succession, she leaves the only home she's ever known for the chance to be part of a glamorous slice of history. In the winter of 1981, in a co
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St Martin's Press A Summer to Remember
Book SynopsisErika Montgomery''s A Summer to Remember is an unforgettable tale of love, loss and finding your place that glitters as brightly as the golden age of Hollywood.-Kristy Woodson Harvey, USA Today Bestselling author of Feels Like FallingBest Debut Novels of Spring and Summer *Library Journal * Fresh Fiction * Booktrib For thirty-year-old Frankie Simon, selling movie memorabilia in the shop she opened with her late mother on Hollywood Boulevard is more than just her livelihoodit's an enduring connection to the only family she has ever known. But when a mysterious package arrives containing a photograph of her mother and famous movie stars Glory Cartwright and her husband at a coastal film festival the year before Frankie's birth, her life begins to unravel in ways unimaginable.What begins is a journey along a path revealing buried family secrets, betrayals between lovers, bonds between friends. And for Frankie, as the past unlo
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St Martin's Press Our Place on the Island
Book SynopsisFor decades, the Campbell women have reunited at the family's rambling seaside cottage known as Beech House to celebrate life's many occasions. But this year, they will be called back to Martha''s Vineyard for a celebration of a different sort: their beloved matriarch Cora is getting remarried. And all the town gossips are calling him the one who got away, years ago For renowned chef Mickey Campbell, this wedding isn't just a welcome excuse to return to the place she first learned to cook at her grandmother's side. It's also a chance to regroup while she figures out a way to tell her smoldering head chef boyfriend that she's mismanaged their restaurant into the red. Mickey's mother, Hedy, is still mourning the passing of her adored father three years earlier, and she isn't sure she's ready to welcome a new man into the foldand she's not certain her own thorny relationship with her mother will weather the storm of her upcoming marriage.But everyone know
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Picador USA The Other Bennet Sister
Book SynopsisA NPR CONCIERGE BEST BOOK OF THE YEARJane fans rejoice! . . . Exceptional storytelling and a true delight. Helen Simonson, author of the New York Times bestselling novels Major Pettigrew''s Last Stand and The Summer Before the WarMary, the bookish ugly duckling of Pride and Prejudice's five Bennet sisters, emerges from the shadows and transforms into a desired woman with choices of her own.What if Mary Bennet's life took a different path from that laid out for her in Pride and Prejudice? What if the frustrated intellectual of the Bennet family, the marginalized middle daughter, the plain girl who takes refuge in her books, eventually found the fulfillment enjoyed by her prettier, more confident sisters? This is the plot of Janice Hadlow''s The Other Bennet Sister, a debut novel with exactly the affection and authority to satisfy Jane Austen fans.Ultimately, Mary's jou
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Celadon Books The Latecomer
Book Synopsis*A New York Times Notable Book of 2022* *A Washington Post Notable Work of Fiction* *An NPR Best Book of the Year**A New Yorker Best Book of 2022*From the New York Times bestselling author of The Plot, Jean Hanff Korelitz's The Latecomer is a layered and immersive literary novel about three siblings, desperate to escape one another, and the upending of their family by the late arrival of a fourth.The Latecomer follows the story of the wealthy, New York City-based Oppenheimer family, from the first meeting of parents Salo and Johanna, under tragic circumstances, to their triplets born during the early days of IVF. As children, the three siblings Harrison, Lewyn, and Sally feel no strong familial bond and cannot wait to go their separate ways, even as their father becomes more distanced and their mother more desperate. When the triplets leave for college, Johanna, f
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Forge Carolina Moonset
Book SynopsisBoth suspenseful and deeply moving, Carolina Moonset is an engrossing novel about family, memories both golden and terrible, and secrets too dangerous to stay hidden forever, from New York Times bestselling and Emmy Award-winning author, Matt Goldman.Joey Green has returned to Beaufort, South Carolina, with its palmettos and shrimp boats, to look after his ailing father, who is succumbing to dementia, while his overstressed mother takes a break. Marshall Green's short-term memory has all but evaporated, but, as if in compensation, his oldest memories are more vivid than ever. His mind keeps slipping backwards in time, retreating into long-ago yesterdays of growing up in Beaufort as a boy.At first this seems like a blessing of sorts, with the past providing a refuge from a shrinking future, but Joey grows increasingly anxious as his father's hallucinatory arguments with figures from his youth begin to hint at deadly secrets, scandals, and suspicio
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Flatiron Books Acts of Violet
Book SynopsisFrom the author of GMA Book Club pick and national best seller Oona Out of Order, a dazzling and twisty new novel about a famous magician who disappears, leaving her sister to figure out what really happened.
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St. Martin's Griffin It All Comes Down to This
Book SynopsisA JUNE 2022 INDIE NEXT PICKA true page-turner. Ann Napolitano, New York Times bestselling author of Hello BeautifulA smart and lively novel. Jess Walter, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful RuinsAustenesque...this goes down as easily as an Aperol spritz. Publishers WeeklyWith her keen eye for human foibles and emotional truth, humor and deep feeling, acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Therese Anne Fowler''s It All Comes Down to This delivers a stylish, insightful take on the dysfunctional family dramedy.Meet the Geller sisters: Beck, Claire, and Sophie, a trio of strong-minded women whose pragmatic mother, Marti, will be dying soon.Beck, the eldest, is a freelance journalist whose marriage has long been devoid of passion, and she''s recently begun to suspect that her husband, Paul, is hiding something from her. Though middle sister Claire
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Henry Holt & Company Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance
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Picador USA The Art of Losing
Book SynopsisAcross three generations, three wars, two continents, and the mythic waters of the Mediterranean, one family's history leads to an inevitable question: What price do our descendants pay for the choices that we make? Naïma knows Algeria only by the artifacts she encounters in her grandparents' tiny apartment in Normandy: the language her grandmother speaks but Naïma can't understand, the food her grandmother cooks, and the precious things her grandmother carried when they fled. Naïma's father claims to remember nothing; he has made himself French. Her grandfather died before he could tell her his side of the story. But now Naïma will travel to Algeria to see for herself what was left behindincluding their secrets. The Algerian War for Independence sent Naïma's grandfather on a journey of his own, from wealthy olive grove owner and respected veteran of the First World War, to refugee spurned as a harki by his fellow Algerians in the transit camps of south
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St Martin's Press Truly Like Lightning
Book SynopsisFrom the New York Times bestselling author David Duchovny, an epic adventure that asks how we make sense of right and wrong in a world of extremes.For the past twenty years, Bronson Powers, former star Hollywood stuntman and converted Mormon, has been homesteading deep in the uninhabited desert outside Joshua Tree with his three wives and ten children. Bronson and his wives, Yalulah, Mary, and Jackie, have been raising their family away from the corruption and evils of the modern world. Their insular existencecontroversial, difficult, but Edenicis upended when an ambitious young property developer, Maya Abbadessa, stumbles upon their land. Hoping to make a profit, she crafts a wager with the family that sets in motion a cataclysmic chain of events.Maya, threatening to report the family to social services, convinces them to enroll three of the children in a nearby public school. Bronson and his wives agree that if Maya can prove that the kids do better i
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Picador USA The Faces
Book SynopsisFrom Tove Ditlevsen, the acclaimed author of the Copenhagen Trilogy, comes The Faces, a searing, haunting novel of a woman on the edge, portrayed with all the vividness of lived experience.Copenhagen, 1968. Lise, a children's book writer and married mother of three, is increasingly haunted by disembodied faces and voices. She is convinced that her husband, already extravagantly unfaithful, will leave her. Most of all, she is scared that she will never write again. Yet as she descends into a world of pills and hospitals, she begins to wonderis insanity really something to be feared, or does it bring a kind of freedom?
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St. Martin's Press A Week at the Shore
Book SynopsisIn A Week at the Shore, New York Times bestselling author Barbara Delinsky explores how lives and relationships are forever changed when three sisters reunite at their family Rhode Island beach house.One phone call is all it takes to lure real estate photographer Mallory Aldiss back to her family Rhode Island beach home. It''s been twenty years since she''s been gonerunning from the scandal that destroyed her parents'' marriage, drove her and her two sisters apart, and crushed her relationship with her first love. But going home is fraught with emotional baggagememories, mysteries and secrets abound.Mal''s thirteen-year-old daughter, Joy, has never been to the place where Mal''s life was shaped and is desperate to go. Fatherless, she craves family and especially wants to spend time with the grandfather she barely knows.In just seven watershed days on the Rhode Island coast three women will test the bonds of sisterhood, friendship and fami
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Celadon Books Beyond That the Sea
Book SynopsisSpence-Ash has written the novel in eight points of view, but each character is utterly three-dimensional and distinct. This debut novel captivated me from start to finish.Julia Quinn, author of the Bridgerton Series A sweeping, tenderhearted love story, Beyond That, the Sea by Laura Spence-Ash tells the story of two families living through World War II on opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean, and the shy, irresistible young woman who will call them both her own.As German bombs fall over London in 1940, working-class parents Millie and Reginald Thompson make an impossible choice: they decide to send their eleven-year-old daughter, Beatrix, to America. There, she'll live with another family for the duration of the war, where they hope she'll stay safe.Scared and angry, feeling lonely and displaced, Bea arrives in Boston to meet the Gregorys. Mr. and Mrs. G, and their sons William and Gerald, fold Bea seamlessly into their world.
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Henry Holt & Company Amazing Grace Adams
Book SynopsisAn Instant New York Times BestsellerA Today Read With Jenna Book Club PickI dare you not to fall wildly in love with Grace...It''s a book about love, about grace, about even when we fall from those we love we can always find our way home...You will laugh on the first page and you will keep laughing until you''re crying on the last page. ?Jenna Bush Hager, The Today Show''s #ReadwithJennaBernadette, Eleanor Oliphant, Rosie, Ove . . . meet Amazing Grace Adams, the funny, touching, unforgettable story of an invisible everywoman pushed to the brinkwho finally pushes back.Grace Adams gave birth, blinked, and now suddenly she is forty-five, perimenopausal and stalledthe unhappiest age you can be, according to the Guardian. And today she's really losing it. Stuck in traffic, she finally has had enough. To the astonishment of everyone, Grace gets out of her car and simply walks away.
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St. Martin's Griffin The Bookshop by the Bay
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Picador USA The Trouble with Happiness
Book SynopsisThe Trouble with Happiness is a powerful new collection of short stories by Tove Ditlevsen, a terrifying talent (Parul Sehgal, The New York Times).A newly married woman longs, irrationally, for a silk umbrella; a husband chases away his wife's beloved cat; a betrayed mother impulsively sacks her housekeeper. Underneath the surface of these precisely observed tales of marriage and family life in midcentury Copenhagen pulse currents of desire, violence, and despair, as women and men struggle to escape from the roles assigned to them and dream of becoming free and happywithout ever truly understanding what that might mean.Tove Ditlevsen is one of Denmark's most famous and beloved writers, and her autobiographical Copenhagen Trilogy was hailed as a masterpiece on republication in English, named a New York Times Best Book of the Year, and lauded for its wry humor, limpid prose, and powerful honesty. The poignant and understated stories i
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Forge An Irish Country Doctor
Book SynopsisThe start of the beloved New York Times, USA Today, and Globe and Mail bestselling series from author Patrick Taylor, An Irish Country DoctorBarry Laverty, M.D., can barely find the village of Ballybucklebo on a map when he first sets out to seek gainful employment there, but already he knows that there is nowhere he would rather live than in the emerald hills and dales of Northern Ireland. The proud owner of a spanking-new medical degree, Barry jumps at the chance to secure a position as an assistant in a small rural practice.At least until he meets Dr. Fingal Flahertie O''Reilly.The older physician, whose motto is to never let the patients get the upper hand, has his own way of doing things, which definitely takes some getting used to. At first, Barry can''t decide if the pugnacious O''Reilly is the biggest charlatan he has ever met, or possibly the best teacher he could ever hope for.Ballybucklebo is long way from
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Forge An Irish Country Village
Book SynopsisBeautifully evocative of a gentler, simpler time, Patrick Taylor''s An Irish Country Village magically captures the charm, wit, and ribald humor of a vanished Irish countryside and its people.Welcome Back to the Village of Ballybucklebo.Come and say hello again to Dr. O''Reilly''s odd-as-two-left feet patients, his housekeeper, Mrs. Kinky Kinkaid, and O''Reilly''s pets, Arthur Guinness, the beer-swilling black Lab and Lady MacBeth, the demonically possessed white cat.And of course, to young Dr. Barry Laverty.After Barry''s first month as an assistant to crusty Dr. O''Reilly, he has been offered a permanent spot. But Laverty''s excitement is dashed when one of his patients unexpectedly dies. The damage to his reputation is enormous, and he and O''Reilly must work to resolve the question of Barry''s responsibility for the death.They also have to figure out how to save the four-hundred-year-old village pub. Plans are afoot to not re
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Holt McDougal Chevy in the Hole
Book SynopsisA New York Times Book Review Editors'' ChoiceNamed a Michigan Notable Book for 2023Finalist for the 2022 Heartland Booksellers Award A gorgeous, unflinching love letter to Flint, Michigan, and the resilience of its people, Kelsey Ronan''s Chevy in the Hole follows multiple generations of two families making their homes there, with a stunning contemporary love story at its center. In the opening pages of Chevy in the Hole, August Gus Molloy has just overdosed in a bathroom stall of the Detroit farm-to-table restaurant where he works. Shortly after, he packs it in and returns home to his family in Flint. This latest slip and recommitment to sobriety doesn't feel too terribly different from the others, until Gus meets Monae, an urban farmer trying to coax a tenuous rebirth from the city's damaged land. Through her eyes, he sees what might be possible in a city everyone else seems to have forgotten or, wors
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Holt McDougal Who You Might Be
Book SynopsisDazzling...Who You Might Be is a brilliant, splintery coming-of-age novel that perfectly captures the nervous thrum of adolescence and the unnerving fragility of adulthood. Gallagher is so acutely attuned to the lies (and secrets) we tell (and keep from) ourselves and others. It puts me in mind of Emma Cline and Rachel Kushner.Award-winning author Peter Ho DaviesA fiercely original and propulsive debut novel about the unexpected turns in life that ultimately determine who we become.It's the late ninetiesthe dawn of the internetand Judy and Meghan have lied to their mothers and run away for the weekend, to see a girl they've met in a chat room. Meanwhile, twelve-year-old Cassie, desperately clinging to childhood hopes, travels deep into the Nevada desert to reunite with her real mother at a strange and isolated compound. And, across the country, Caleb, an entitled teenager, is miserable following his family's move from upper-crust San Francisco to
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Picador USA At Weddings and Wakes
Book SynopsisPulitzer Prize finalist At Weddings and Wakes is a brilliant, highly complex, extraordinary piece of fiction (Chicago Tribune)Lucy Dailey leaves suburbia twice a week with her three children in tow, returning to the Brooklyn home where she grew up, and where her stepmother and unmarried sisters still live. The children quietly observe Aunt Veronica, who drowns her sorrows in drink, Aunt Agnes, a caustic career woman, and finally Aunt May, the ex-nun, blossoming with a late and unexpected love, dutifully absorbing the legacy of their less-than-perfect family. Alice McDermott beautifully evokes three generations of an Irish-American family in this haunting and masterly work of literary art (The Wall Street Journal).
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WW Norton & Co The Wren the Wren
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This is a powerful, thoughtful book by one of the great living writers on the subject of family. Speaking about love in terms both domestic and transcendent, Enright coos through newly connected wires." -- New York Times"[Enright's] poems have a language of their own that transcends time. Like the novel itself, they sing with grace and beauty and hard-hitting truth." -- Washington Post"An unstinting celebration of beauty. One of Ms. Enright’s remarkable feats is to write believably across three generations, capturing epochal differences but also a buried, or even repressed, continuity." -- Wall Street Journal"The power of Enright's novel derives not so much from the age-old tale of men behaving badly, but from the beauty and depth of her own style. She's so deft at rendering arresting insights into personality types or situations. " -- Maureen Corrigan - NPR"Art as an illusion, love as a trap, the stranglehold of family ties: these are themes that Enright has already made her own. They are not just reprised here but honed to an essential honesty. Line for line, no one is more skilled than Enright at unfolding an unsettling scene. The Wren, The Wren is ruthless, raw stuff." -- The Guardian"The Wren, The Wren shows that her achievements continue apace: it may be her best book yet. Not only a triumph but a joy. " -- Irish Culture Times"A whirlwind of a novel." -- Irish Independent"An unforgettable read." -- Sunday Independent"The whip-smart latest from Booker winner Enright…fizzes with wit and bite. Enright’s discomfiting and glimmering narrative leans toward a poetic sense of hope." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)"The exceptional, multigarlanded Irish writer returns with a three-generation, woman-centered family portrait marked by 'inheritance, of both trauma and of wonder,' and melodious, poetic echoes. Lyrical poems of birds punctuate the text, as do snatches of cruelty and violence between men and women, sisters, men and animals, even parents and children. But the familial connections are indelible and enduring. Tender and truthful as ever, Enright offers a beguiling journey to selfhood." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review)"Achingly beautiful." -- BookPage (starred review)"Enriched by searing if beautiful poetry, Enright’s beseeching novel thrums with desire, heartache, and connection." -- Booklist (starred review)"One of the best novelists of her generation . . . I have no hesitation whatsoever in recommending this book. " -- RTE Radio 1"Gritty, sad, sly, riotous…[Enright’s] gem-packed language fizzes like a sidewalk firecracker." -- Margaret Atwood via Twitter"To call Anne Enright’s new novel a moving, nuanced glimpse at three generations of Irish life underplays its thrilling expansiveness: in the end, The Wren, The Wren is an electrifying romp through language itself—its dizzying possibilities and satisfactions—led by one the most gifted writers working in English today." -- Jennifer Egan, author of The Candy House"The Wren, The Wren is a magnificent novel. Anne Enright's stylistic brilliance seems to put the reader directly in touch with her characters and the rich territory of their lives." -- Sally Rooney, author of Beautiful World, Where Are You"A book of musical tenderness and devastating precision, The Wren, The Wren makes its own weather -- whilst reading, your heart will work to Enright's beat." -- Kiran Millwood Hargrave, author of The Dance Tree"These pages practically crackle with intelligence, compassion, and wit. Phil McDaragh is so real I almost googled him. The Wren, The Wren might just be Anne Enright's best yet." -- Louise Kennedy, author of Trespasses"Sharp, sudden, mischievous, sublime—this is a dazzling novel; a glorious multi-generational novel of tangled relationships, secrets, bodies, sex. Nell must be one of the best young women I've read in recent Irish fiction." -- Lucy Caldwell, author of These Days"Anne Enright has long been one of my influences, way back to when I was more a reader than a writer, and these days I regularly find myself returning to her work when I'm teaching fiction workshops. I absolutely loved The Wren, The Wren. What an utterly wonderful novel! It got into my very bones. It's magnificent. Proof once again that Anne can do things with sentences that nobody else can!" -- Danielle McLaughlin, author of The Art of Falling
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WW Norton & Co The Blind Light
Book SynopsisNamed a Best Historical Fiction of 2020 Pick by the New York Times A multigenerational story about two families bound together by the tides of history and the bittersweet complexity of love.Trade Review"The Blind Light is a page-perfect and impeccably structured portrait of Britain’s troubled, post-nuclear generations, and the pressures which have both tugged them apart and cemented them together. Stuart Evers has written a powerful and affecting novel which excels at being as true to Family and the personal as it is to Nation and the universal, a rare and potent combination." -- Jim Crace"One is taken both by the breadth of vision and the depth of character on offer in Stuart Evers’ stunning The Blind Light. Rarely does a novel of this scope sing with such brio at the level of the sentence while searing so emphatically in the region of the heart. This is an achievement to be admired and, frankly, envied. My hat is off." -- Laird Hunt, author of The Evening Road"A thoroughly absorbing novel which illuminates the nature of friendship and family while offering a compelling portrait of Britain. I loved it." -- Cathy Rentzenbrink, author of The Last Act of Love"A thoughtful and powerful study of the corrosive effects of fear, the damage we do to ourselves and our loved ones when danger is all we can see. Right now that story feels disconcertingly timely." -- Clare Clark - Guardian"[E]ngrossing…with its slow burn, Evers's vivid, perceptive chronicle of secrets and desperation satisfies." -- Publishers Weekly
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WW Norton & Co Activities of Daily Living
Book SynopsisTrade Review"[An] engrossing debut…[Chen] is an elegantly reserved writer. Her novel is digressive without feeling showy, sombre yet never maudlin." -- Hua Hsu - The New Yorker"[Lisa Hsiao] Chen writes with cool, elegant precision…[Activities of Daily Living is] an utterly persuasive transmutation of the ordinary stuff of life." -- Steph Cha - New York Times Book Review"Highly recommend for: fans of Chen’s poetry; fans of Olivia Laing and/or Ben Lerner; anyone who’s ever found themselves consumed by art; anyone who’s fighting the very nature of time (and, really, who isn’t?)." -- Kaulie Lewis - Millions"From the making of art to the making of families, Lisa Hsiao Chen makes us realize the great beauty and courage found in everyday acts of care, work, endurance, and survival. Weaving between one daughter and her father, one artist and his work, Activities of Daily Living becomes a beguiling and brilliant meditation on what it means to live and die." -- Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sympathizer and The Committed"Brilliant, fiercely honest, and exhilarating, Lisa Hsiao Chen’s Activities of Daily Living illuminates the symbiotic relationship of art and life—the art of life, indeed. This is a riveting and memorable novel." -- Claire Messud, New York Times best-selling author of The Burning Girl"Activities of Daily Living is an exquisitely crafted archive that documents the living grief of witnessing a parent’s slow descent while summoning to life a radical genealogy of artists and writers. This novel is proof of the transformational power of art, a sublime performance that left me enchanted!" -- Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi, PEN/Faulkner Award–winning author of Call Me Zebra and Savage Tongues"Activities of Daily Living is miraculously transformative of what it holds. Organized around the artworks of Tehching Hsieh and the act of witnessing a parent’s end of life, a circumscribed but questing narrator synthesizes the chaos and fragments of time, death, and illness into a moving and brilliant arcade—a project about exceptional and quotidian endurances weaved together via lifesaving and heartbreaking bricolage." -- Eugene Lim, author of Search History"The meditative quest that unfolds from this novel’s deceptively simple framework is as riveting as any page-turner. Filled with startling insight and moving detail, Activities of Daily Living will make you want to attend to life more fully—its joys as well as its griefs. What can literature do that other art forms can’t? This book is the answer." -- Anelise Chen, author of So Many Olympic Exertions"Chen wows in this tender debut novel... [She] develops an intelligent and deeply empathic portrayal of Alice witnessing her stepfather disappearing inside himself, and in doing so offers careful and illuminating observations on issues of cultural difference, productivity, family, and freedom. Chen’s own project is masterly and memorable." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)"[A] thoughtful and thoughtfilled meditation on time... Elegiac and revealing, Chen's debut illuminates the clock in our hearts." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review)"Like the work of writer Rachel Cusk, who brought new thinking to what constitutes a novel, Activities of Daily Living takes chances with the form to strong effect…In delivering a meditation on human frailty and endurance, [Lisa Hsiao] Chen shows us how we cling to our chosen work and the hope buried within it." -- Kathryn Ma - San Francisco Chronicle
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WW Norton & Co Leaving A Novel
Book SynopsisOne of Oprah Daily's Most Anticipated Books of 2024 What risks would you be willing to take to fall in love again?Trade Review"A study of the complex joy and pain of late-life love, Leaving is a tour de force and arguably Robinson's finest work yet. Robinson’s writing—unfailingly clear-eyed, packed with psychological insights—compels readers to care passionately about the characaters. Leaving stands as a wondrous feat, and its final impact shatters." -- Joan Frank - Washington Post"This lithe novel engrosses. Robinson’s storytelling is classic, page after page of swiftly moving scenes and writing as precise as rows of tilled earth. Robinson proves that writers can still evoke the silences and renunciations that thwart desire, and that stars still cross. The ending is a bombshell, eminently discussable." -- Amity Gaige - New York Times"An impassioned portrayal of desire and loyalty, of romantic love and family duty, and an exploration into what we owe to each other—and to ourselves." -- Oprah Daily"Leaving navigates the chasm between responsibility and desire when two long-lost lovers reconnect. This beautiful book will sweep you away." -- People Magazine"An operatic tragedy about passion and honor…poised to fuel many a book group discussion." -- Heller McAlpin - NPR"Leaving is as absorbing as it is haunting, powered by Roxana Robinson’s deep understanding of ambiguities, allegiances, and the lengths people must sometimes go to navigate them." -- Meg Wolitzer, author of The Female Persuasion"What does love demand of us, and who must pay the price? Leaving is a searing interrogation of honor and passion. It dissects the hidden cost of the choices we make, and the consequences with which we must endeavor to live." -- Geraldine Brooks, author of Horse"Leaving is a passionate portrait of marriages, of parenthood (early and late), and the tectonic shifts of family life. Roxana Robinson brings her wit, her beautiful sentences, and her compassionate clarity to this book about the price of love and the enduring need for it." -- Amy Bloom, author of In Love"A remarkable novel—a quietly expansive story, in which elements of love and family coalesce and escalate into tragedy. Leaving has a plot in which surprises abound, as broken conventions lead to menace and threat. A triumph of a book." -- Joan Silber, author of Secrets of Happiness"If to the combustible elements of passion, honor, love, and art, you add the complexities of modern parenting, you get the conflagration that is Leaving. Compelling, heart-stopping, and all too believable, this is a marvelous read." -- Gish Jen, author of The Resisters
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WW Norton & Co Dayswork A Novel
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Weird and wonderful, a novel in verse that immediately casts a spell and keeps it going until the last little missive. It’s the kind of book you miss as soon as it’s over, its sway and power nearly as mysterious and unlikely as that of a leviathan tome about whaling…[I]t brings to mind Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own as much as Moby-Dick." -- Chris Vognar - Boston Globe"A clever mash-up of a fictionalized memoir, a meditation on a literary forebear, and a portrait of a marriage…Dayswork is a supremely literate achievement that wears its erudition lightly." -- Heller McAlpin - Wall Street Journal"A brief, illuminating book about Melville and marriage…[T]he words seem to bob on a sea of blank white pages, the ideas come together elegantly and with a deadpan timing." -- Christine Smallwood - Washington Post"A probing story about ambition, art and marriage." -- New York Times"Masterful." -- Alice Kelly - Los Angeles Review of Books"[T]he perfect book for a subdivided brain—a lovingly curated smorgasbord of Melville arcana lightly masquerading as a pandemic novel." -- Andrew Martin - The Paris Review"Bachelder and Habel weave a deft, subtle family drama out of one woman’s obsessive immersion in the wonderful and frightening world of Herman Melville." -- Andrew Schenker - The Baffler"Surprising and revelatory and the perfect read for all lovers of literature." -- Hannah Harlow, WBUR"[W]hat makes the novel so moving…is how Bachelder and Habel distill history down into a kind of personal microcosm." -- Nicholas Russell - The Defector"Bachelder and Habel have created a curious, heady cocktail of a quarantine novel that feels like a buoyant literary memoir, a surprising and exhilarating inquiry into the pleasures and pitfalls of literature, obsession, collaboration, and love, all relayed with piquant wit and thrilling insight." -- Donna Seaman - Booklist (starred review)"A remarkable, unusually rewarding work." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred)"A love letter to literature." -- Alexander Chee, author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel"Dayswork is a wonder. I cannot think of another book, another reading experience, entirely like this one. It is suffused with the pleasures of reading, of immersion, of companionship in all its forms." -- Katie Kitamura, author of Intimacies"How to describe this deeply moving and entirely original book Dayswork is at once a portrait of a marriage, a meditation on art and ambition, a pandemic novel, a middle-age comedy, a brilliant collage of Herman Melville, and a tour de force of collaborative writing. Above all, it is a love story. Out of the most difficult times and unlikely materials, Chris Bachelder and Jennifer Habel have created something that can only be described as extraordinary." -- Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum, author of Madeleine is Sleeping"I was equally charmed and fascinated by Dayswork, this slender but capacious book about marriage and solitude, about Melville and Hawthorne, about literature and obsession and whether they might not be the same thing. Wry, intimate, and wholly original, the novel surprised me and edified me with every page I eagerly turned." -- Jess Walter, author of Beautiful Ruins
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Ecco Press The Sisters Chase
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Harlequin The Book Club Hotel
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Silhouette Books Imagine Us
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Hqn The Wish List
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Hqn Snowed in for Christmas
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Silhouette Books Wild Heart
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Harlequin Books Forget What You Know
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Hqn Snowed in for Christmas
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Sourcebooks, Inc The Young Clementina
Book SynopsisLove, Loss, and Love Again...Charlotte Dean enjoys nothing more than the solitude of her London flat and the monotonous days of her work at a travel bookshop. But when her younger sister unceremoniously bursts into her quiet life one afternoon, Charlotte''s world turns topsy-turvy.Beloved author D.E. Stevenson captures the intricacies of post-World War I England with a light, comic touch that perfectly embodies the spirit of the time. Alternatively heartbreaking and witty, The Young Clementina is a touch tale of love, loss, and redemption through friendship.The Young Clementina is another heartwarming tale from D.E. Stevenson, beloved author of Miss Buncle''s BookReaders love The Young Clementina:Immensely enjoyable. As usual when I finish a novel by D.E. Stevenson, I cannot wipe the happy contented smile off my face.A heartwarming story of love, lost and found...Lots of tears and happiness.Trade Review"A good, old fashioned romance, nicely plotted and smartly executed." - Fleur In her World"The Young Clementina was surprisingly engaging and wonderful." - Christy's Books
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Large Print Press The Immortalists
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Thorndike Press Large Print The Things We Cannot Say Thorndike Press Large
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Large Print Press My Sister the Serial Killer
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Large Print Press Someone Like You
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Large Print Press Dear Edward
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Gale, a Cengage Company After I Do
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Thorndike Press Large Print Without Merit
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Amazon Publishing Lark Song
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Gently told, warm and engaging, Lark Song charts the lives and private anxieties of an ordinary family as they try to overcome loss and accept they are allowed to be happy again.” —Rachel Joyce, bestselling author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry “A captivating story, full of love, buried secrets, and a shocking betrayal. Unputdownable!” —Sue Limb, writer and broadcaster “Jane Bailey combines lightness of touch with a deep well of emotional intelligence. This story…is affecting, wise and lovely.” —Kate Riordan, author of The Stranger and The Girl in the Photograph “Lark Song is a beguiling, heart-tugging novel that comes complete with some of the most convincingly written child characters I’ve encountered in grown-up fiction.” —Caroline Sanderson, editor at The Bookseller “Lark Song is a love story with a dark betrayal at its heart that is nevertheless funny, tender, thoughtful, and romantic…with characters and a plot reminiscent of Daphne Du Maurier’s Rebecca in a very up-to-date setting. I loved this book.” —Karen Byrom, My Weekly
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Amazon Publishing When Never Comes
Book SynopsisTrade Review“When Never Comes is the story of a woman trapped in her own past, limited in all the ways she’s been hurt by others. But when love presents itself in new and unexpected ways, she has to face all the doors she’s closed…all the nevers she’s clung to. This is a story of love, hope, redemption, and rediscovering who you were meant to be, and it will resonate with readers who love a tale full of heart and soul.” —Camille Di Maio, bestselling author of The Memory of Us and Before the Rain Falls “When Never Comes is another winner from Barbara Davis: a contemporary mystery that connects a husband’s betrayal to childhood trauma and broken promises. Christy-Lynn’s story is about resilience and vulnerability; about the ways we hurt and the ways we heal; about huddling in self-protection but opening up to the possibilities of love.” —Barbara Claypole White, bestselling author of The Perfect Son and The Promise Between Us “Brimming with compassion and a refreshingly grown-up romance, Barbara Davis’s story of a woman who has left herself behind in more ways than one is imbued with grace, patience, and hope. Second chances abound in this uplifting tale about starting over and how letting go of our nevers just might be the only thing that lets us move forward.” —Emily Carpenter, author of Burying the Honeysuckle Girls and The Weight of Lies “Infused with honesty, friendship, and a touch of romance. Davis creates nuanced and well-developed characters who are faced with situations to which there are no easy answers. Told through alternating narrators and shifting between the present and Christy-Lynn’s difficult childhood with an addicted mother, When Never Comes is a carefully woven tale that the reader won’t soon forget.” —Emily Cavanagh, author of The Bloom Girls and This Bright Beauty
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Tyndale House Publishers The Undoing of Saint Silvanus
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