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The Wangs vs. the World
by Jade Chang
A wealthy but fractured Chinese family loses everything in the financial crisis before embarking on a haphazard but ultimately redemptive journey across America as part of an effort to reclaim ancestral lands in China. A first novel.
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I'll Be Your Blue Sky
by Marisa De los Santos
Three weeks after an elderly neighbor helps her find the courage to end an unhealthy relationship, Clare unexpectedly inherits a small house from the woman and with the help of loved ones pieces together the story of the house and her courageous benefactor. By the best-selling author of Belong to Me.
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The Turner House
by Angela Flournoy
Learning that after a half-century of family life that their house on Detroit's East Side is worth only a fraction of its mortgage, the members of the Turner family gather to reckon with their pasts and decide the house's fate. A first novel.
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America for Beginners
by Leah Franqui
A widow from India travels to California to learn the truth about what happened to the son who was declared dead shortly after he revealed his sexual orientation to their traditional family. A first novel.
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The Lowland
by Jhumpa Lahiri
Frequently mistaken for one another in spite of very different natures, brothers Subhash and Udayan Mitra pursue respective lives in rebellion-torn 1960s Calcutta until a shattering tragedy compels Subhash to return to India, where he endeavors to heal family wounds. By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Unaccustomed Earth.
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Number One Chinese Restaurant
by Lillian Li
A working family that has built a busy life running a beloved Maryland Chinese restaurant is forced by youthful recklessness and a tragedy to confront interpersonal conflicts and the limits of what parents are willing to sacrifice for their children.
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The Ninth Hour
by Alice McDermott
A portrait of the Irish-American experience is presented through the story of an Irish immigrant's suicide and how it reverberates through innumerable lives in early 20th-century Catholic Brooklyn. By the National Book Award-winning author of Charming Billy.
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Who Asked You?
by Terry McMillan
Already burdened with the dramas of her other adult children, BJ finds herself caring for her grandchildren when one of her daughters disappears in this new novel from the New York Times best-selling author of Waiting to Exhale.
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The Children's Crusade
by Ann Packer
When their troubled youngest sibling returns, the three oldest Blair children, adults now and still living near the family home, find their lives disrupted in ways they could have never imagined as they each tell their story that is interwoven with portraits of their family at crucial points in their history.
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Commonwealth
by Ann Patchett
A five-decade saga tracing the impact of an act of infidelity on the parents and children of two Southern California families traces their shared summers in Virginia and the disillusionment that shapes their lasting bond.
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Saints for All Occasions
by J. Courtney Sullivan
Moving from Ireland to America upon coming of age, a shy and responsible older sister and a gregarious young sister who thrives in their new Boston home endure the long-term repercussions of a fateful decision when the younger sister becomes pregnant.
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A Spool of Blue Thread
by Anne Tyler
The changing needs of aging parents impact a family gathering during which Abby Whitshank relates how her husband and she fell in love during the summer of 1959 and shared decades of marriage impacted by children and long-held secrets. By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Breathing Lessons.
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Summer on the River
by Marcia Willett
A threatening secret, an unhappy marriage and an unexpected love affair threaten Evie and Charlie's family during what they fear may be their last shared summer at a beloved riverside home. By the best-selling author of A Week in Winter.
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Tin Man
by Sarah Winman
Shortlisted for the Costa Novel of the Year Award, a heartbreaking celebration of love in all its forms gradually reveals a fallout between two longtime friends and Oxford students over the course of a decade marked by the marriage of one and the disappearance of the other. By the author of When God Was a Rabbit.
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