In the wake of family collapse, a writer moves to London with her two young sons. The process of upheaval is the catalyst for a number of transitions—personal, moral, artistic, practical—as she endeavors to construct a new reality for...
Families -- Fiction
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Author:Rachel CuskSummary: -
Author:March, J. D.Summary:Life for former gunfighter Johnny Fierro has never been straightforward or easy. He and Lady Luck don't always see eye-to-eye. Some days he thinks she likes to turn the cards and stack the deck against him. Although Fierro's returned to...
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Author:Allende, IsabelSummary:In one of the most important and beloved Latin American works of the twentieth century, Isabel Allende weaves a luminous tapestry of three generations of the Trueba family, revealing both triumphs and tragedies. Here is patriarch...
- Author:Shaw, IrwinSummary:
Rich Man, Poor Man is a 1969 novel by Irwin Shaw. It is a sprawling work, with over 600 pages, and covers many of the themes Shaw returns to again and again in all of his fiction – Americans living as expatriates in Europe, the...
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Author:Joss, MoragSummary:During the summer of 1960, fifteen-year-old Lila escapes the confines of school and her mother's hysterics to spend the summer with her uncle George, a music teacher preparing to stage a Puccini opera in Burnhead, on the west coast...
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Author:Wishinsky, FriedaSummary:Maggie is so excited to show her friends the picture of her soon-to-be-adopted sister. She can't wait to show the new baby off. Everyone will love her! But when Maggie brings a picture of the baby to show-and-tell, she doesn't get the...
- Author:Harper, BeverleySummary:
As southern Africa is torn apart by a so-called 'white man's war', Dallas Granger-Acheson and his beloved wife Lorna are caught up in a conflict between fiercely proud descendants of Dutch settlers and the might of...
- Author:WINTON, TimSummary:
From separate catastrophes two rural families flee to the city and find themselves sharing a house where they begin their lives again from scratch. For 20 years they laugh and curse until the roof over their heads becomes home for their...
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Author:March, J. D.Summary:Gunfighter Johnny Fierro is trying to settle into a new life as a rancher in New Mexico's Cimarron Valley, but his past just won't let go. Whether it's gunfighters looking to settle old scores, or bushwhackers aiming a bullet at his...
- Author:El Akkad, OmarSummary:
Sarat Chestnut, born in Louisiana, is only six when the Second American Civil War breaks out in 2074. But even she knows that oil is outlawed, that Louisiana is half underwater, that unmanned drones fill the sky. And when her father is...
