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Chris Bohjalian Author Read Alikes March 13, 2018 |
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If you enjoy reading books by Chris Bohjalian try these authors.
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The Art of Mending : A Novel by Elizabeth BergReturning home for the annual family reunion, Laura Bartone and her brother, Steve, are stunned by their sister, Caroline, and her allegations of shocking behavior on the part of their mother, and are forced to come to terms with the truth and lies within their family, as well as the painful cycle of denial, blame, repression, and forgiveness.
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Light on Snow : A Novel by Anita ShreveRemembering the December afternoon nearly twenty years earlier when her father and she discovered an abandoned infant in the snow, Nicky recalls her father's efforts to escape society after a painful tragedy, a young woman struggles to live with the consequences of her choices, and a clever detective is determined to promote justice.
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The Storyteller by Jodi PicoultBecoming friends with Josef Weber, an old man who's particularly loved in her community, Sage Singer is shocked when one day he asks her to kill him and reveals why he deserves to die, causing her to question her beliefs—and to wonder if his request would be murder or justice.
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Miller's Valley : A Novel by Anna QuindlenComing of age in a dwindling 1960s farming community in eastern Pennsylvania, Mimi struggles with profound family secrets and the pain of falling in love with the wrong person against a backdrop of dynamic historical periods.
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For Love by Sue MillerThree childhood friends are reunited after years of separation and when tragedy strikes, find themselves forced to confront and cope with the secrets and conflict of their pasts.
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The Rules of Magic by Alice HoffmanA prequel to the best-selling Practical Magic traces the story of the children of Susanna Owens, who, in spite of their mother's fierce edicts against witchcraft, develop powerful abilities while struggling to escape the family curse that leads to tragedy if they fall in love.
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The Hour I First Believed : A Novel by Wally LambRelocating to a family farm in Connecticut after surviving the Columbine school shootings, Caelum and Maureen discover a cache of family memorabilia dating back five generations, which reveals to Caelum unexpected truths about painful past events.
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Prodigal Summer : A Novel by Barbara KingsolverWildlife biologist Deanna is caught off guard by an intrusive young hunter, while bookish famer's wife Lusa finds herself facing a difficult identity choice, and elderly neighbors find attraction at the height of a long-standing feud.
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Disobedience : A Novel by Jane HamiltonChicago private school student Henry stumbles onto the e-mail account he set up for his mother and inadvertently discovers she is having an affair with a violin maker wholly different from Henry's socialist history teacher father.
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Cage of Stars by Jacquelyn MitchardHer Mormon community shattered by the brutal murders of her two younger sisters, Veronica Swan severs ties with her family years later in her inability to forgive their killer, a decision that causes her to discover profound truths about sin and compassion.
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Bel Canto : A Novel by Ann PatchettWhen terrorists seize hostages at an embassy party, an unlikely assortment of people is thrown together, including American opera star Roxanne Coss, and Mr. Hosokawa, a Japanese CEO and her biggest fan
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Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth StroutThe larger-than-life world of Olive Kitteridge, a retired school teacher and unofficial town crier in a small coastal town in Maine, is revealed in a series of luminous stories that explore her diverse roles in many lives, including a lounge singer haunted by a past love, a young man grieving over his lost mother, her stoic husband, and her own resentful son.
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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan : A Novel by Lisa SeeAn evocative story of friendship set against the backdrop of a nineteenth-century China in which women suffered from foot binding, isolation, and illiteracy follows an elderly woman and her companion as they communicate their hopes, dreams, joys, and tragedies through a unique secret language.
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The Boston Girl : A Novel by Anita DiamantRecounting the story of her life to her granddaughter, octogenarian Addie describes how she was raised in early-twentieth-century America by Jewish immigrant parents in a teeming multicultural neighborhood
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And the Dark Sacred Night by Julia GlassEnduring a stagnant life of hard work and a long-standing mystery about his father's identity, Kit Noonan searches for answers from statesman's wife Lucinda Burns, who reflects on a long-ago accident and its widespread repercussions.
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The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk KiddTraces more than three decades in the lives of a wealthy Charleston debutante who longs to break free from the strictures of her household and pursue a meaningful life; and the urban slave, Handful, who is placed in her charge as a child before finding courage and a sense of self.
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Baker Towers by Jennifer HaighThe decade following World War II becomes one of tragedy, excitement, and unexpected change for the five Novak children and the residents of their western Pennsylvania community of company houses, church festivals, union squabbles, and firemen's parades.
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After I'm gone by Laura LippmanWorking a 26-year-old cold case involving the murder of a convicted felon's mistress, retired Baltimore detective Roberto Sanchez becomes tangled up in a web of bitterness, jealousy, and greed that spans 30 years and connects five women whose lives will never be the same once the truth is exposed.
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Ellen Foster
by Kaye Gibbons
After the death of her mother, an eleven-year-old girl finds that life with her father is too dangerous and tries to find a new home
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Blue Water by A. Manette AnsayDevastated when their six-year-old son is killed by a drunk driver, Meg's childhood friend, Cindy Ann Kreisler, Meg Van Dorn and her husband Rex purchase a boat, planning to leave their old life behind forever, but they soon discover that it is impossible to escape the past and all its complexities.
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Ya-Yas in Bloom : A Novel
by Rebecca Wells
A new installment of the best-selling series featuring the four Sisterhood members from Thornton, Louisiana, takes readers to the years of the group's origins, during which Vivi, Teensy, Caro, and Necie endure crises of faith, lapses in parenting, brushes with alcoholism, and glimpses into racial bigotry.
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Empire Falls by Richard RussoMiles Roby tries to hold his family together while working at the Empire Grill in the once-successful logging town of Empire Falls while dealing with the imperious Mrs. Whiting, the heir to a faded logging and textile legacy
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The Beginner's Goodbye : A Novel by Anne TylerSharing a happy marriage with the plain and outspoken Dorothy, Aaron, a physically disabled man who spent his youth avoiding a controlling sister, is devastated by his wife's sudden death and moves through the grieving process with the help of her apparition.
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The Edge of the Earth by Christina SchwarzFeeling restless in spite of her accomplishments and imminent marriage, Trudy is ostracized by her late nineteenth-century Milwaukee community when she falls in love with an enigmatic man and relocates to a California lighthouse
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The Children's Crusade : A Novel by Ann Packer"A portrait of a California family spanning several decades that examines the way a troubled marriage sets the course of family life and encourages adult children to grapple with the past even as they attempt to create successful families--and lives--of their own"
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The Girl Who Stopped Swimming by Joshilyn JacksonHer suburban life thrown into chaos when she is visited by the ghost of a thirteen-year-old girl who has just drowned under suspicious circumstances, Laurel begins questioning the characters of her neighbors with the help of her unpredictable sister
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Caleb's Crossing by Geraldine BrooksForging a deep friendship with a Wampanoag chieftain's son on the Great Harbor settlement where her minister father is working to convert the tribe, Bethia follows his subsequent ivy league education and efforts to bridge cultures among the colonial elite.
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True Colors by Kristin HannahDespairing of receiving their critical father's love, Winona occupies herself in books and dreams, while Vivi Anne makes a fateful decision to follow her heart instead of dutifully fulfilling their father's ambitions.
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Made in the U.S.A. by Billie LettsFending for themselves after the death of their mother and the abandonment of their fortune-seeking father, fifteen-year-old Lutie and twelve-year-old Fate flee their hometown in order to avoid becoming wards of the state.
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At the Water's Edge : A Novel by Sara GruenWhile her brother, Ellis, and his friend attempt to find the Loch Ness Monster in an attempt to get back into her father's good graces, Maddie is left on her own in World War II-era Scotland and experiences a social awakening.
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Benediction by Kent HarufA terminally ill cancer patient is attended throughout his final days by his wife and daughter while the trio contemplates their relationships with an estranged son, a situation that stirs up painful memories for a new next-door neighbor who has recently lost her mother.
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The Chaperone by Laura MoriartyAccompanying a future famous actress from her Wichita home to New York, chaperone Cora Carlisle shares a life-changing five-week period with her ambitious teenage charge during which she discovers the promise of the 20th century and her own purpose in life.
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The Last Runaway by Tracy ChevalierForced to leave England and struggling with illness in the wake of a family tragedy, Quaker Honor Bright is forced to rely on strangers in the harsh landscape of 1850 Ohio and is compelled to join the Underground Railroad network to help runaway slaves escape to freedom.
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Little Bee by Chris CleaveThe Somerset Maugham Award-winning author of Incendiary presents a tale of a precarious friendship between an illegal Nigerian refugee and a recent widow from suburban London, a story told from the alternating and disparate perspectives of both women.
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A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley"The only hardcover edition of Jane Smiley's most famous novel--King Lear on an Iowa farm--which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1992. With a new introduction. This powerful twentieth-century reimagining of Shakespeare's King Lear centers on a wealthy Iowa farmer who decides to divide his farm among his three daughters. When the youngest objects, she is cut out of his will, which sets in motion a chain of events that brings dark truths to light. Ambitiously conceived and stunningly written, A Thousand Acres spins the most fundamental themes of truth, justice, love, and pride into a universally acclaimed masterpiece"
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Harmony : A Novel by Carolyn ParkhurstA tale told from the alternating perspectives of a desperate mother and her socially incompetent, genius daughter recounts how, after several school expulsions, their family moves to a spiritual compound under the leadership of a charismatic guru where they encounter nightmarish realities.
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The Husband's Secret by Liane MoriartyDiscovering a tattered letter that says she is to open it only in the event of her husband's death, Cecilia is unable to resist reading the letter and discovers a secret that shatters her life and the lives of two other women
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Chasing the North Star by Robert MorganFleeing the South Carolina plantation where he has spent his entire life, 18-year-old slave Jonah Williams uses the stars to escape to the North and is pursued by both slave hunters and a free-spirited fellow slave who believes Jonah can help her secure her own freedom.
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The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim EdwardsIn a tale spanning twenty-five years, a doctor delivers his newborn twin daughter during a snowstorm and, rashly deciding to protect his wife from the baby's affliction with Down Syndrome, turns her over to a nurse, who secretly raises the child.
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Icy Sparks
by Gwyn Hyman Rubio
After years of living in a children's asylum for having spontaneous jerks and spasms, Icy returns home and is quickly befriended by Miss Emily, who cares for her and teaches her the ways of life, transforming Icy into a new person and forever changing her view of the world
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After I'm gone by Laura LippmanWorking a 26-year-old cold case involving the murder of a convicted felon's mistress, retired Baltimore detective Roberto Sanchez becomes tangled up in a web of bitterness, jealousy, and greed that spans 30 years and connects five women whose lives will never be the same once the truth is exposed.
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