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Fiction A to Z February 2019
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Family Trust
by Kathy Wang
Featuring: terminally ill patriarch Stanley Huang, and his prospective heirs, who wonder how much he's really worth while considering their own failures and successes as second-generation Taiwanese Americans.
What it's about: While debut author Kathy Wang pokes fun at Silicon Valley culture, this is a novel about family relationships, aging, and class privilege.
Is it for you? Fans of Cynthia D'aprix Sweeney's The Nest will find much to appreciate.
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Crash Proof
by S. G. Reid
Darcy van Dyke has lived her last few years in the fast lane. That is until the accident happened. No one could have predicted it. No one could have stopped it. And now all she has left to do is recover from it. Some things are easier said than done. Especially when faced with endless pain, continuous nightmares, and fatigue that no level of caffeine can touch. To make matters worse, she must contend with her best friend's massive family, who are all eager to aid in her recovery. Darcy struggles to slow down enough to get her life back together and to find a moment of privacy in a house filled with well-intentioned people. Can she cope with what has become of her life now? Can she pick up the pieces and move on? Find out in the first installment of the Crash Proof series.
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Golden child : a novel
by Claire Adam
Working exhausting hours in their rural Trinidad home, the family of a petroleum-plant worker is shattered by the disappearance of a troubled twin son whose fate forces his father to make a devastating choice. A first novel.
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Last night in Nuuk
by Niviaq Korneliussen
Last Night in Nuuk follows the lives of five young Greenlanders exploring their identities at the cusp of adulthood.
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My Sister, the Serial Killer
by Oyinkan Braithwaite
Starring: hardworking, practical Korede, and her beautiful sister Ayoola, who seems to have made a habit of killing her boyfriends.
What it's about: Korede is the one who ends up having to dispose of the bodies and keep her sister out of jail. But when the handsome doctor who Korede has fallen in love with notices Ayoola and asks for her number, Korede faces a dilemma.
Why you might like it: This darkly funny debut captures complex family relationships and the crowded streets of Lagos, Nigeria, with equal skill.
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North of dawn
by Nuruddin Farah
A Somalian couple's tranquil life abroad in Oslo is irrevocably transformed by the arrival of their jihadist son's widow and children, who respectively retreat into strict religion and hunger for freedoms in a new homeland.
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Roar
by Cecelia Ahern
I am woman, hear me roar. Have you ever imagined a different life? Have you ever stood at a crossroads, undecided? Have you ever had a moment when you wanted to roar? The women in these startlingly-original stories are all of us.
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The water thief
by Claire Hajaj
When a drought forces the villagers to use a polluted lake for their drinking water, Nick makes a choice to divert funds from the hospital project to build a well for the villagers, but his decision has consequences for the village and his host family
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When you read this
by Mary Adkins
After his friend, Iris, dies from a terminal illness at age 33, PR genius Smith Simonyi teams up with Iris’ sister, Jade, to make Iris’ final request—to get her blog posts published as a book—a reality.
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