Books like I Know This Much Is True
If you liked I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.
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Hamnet
Because shares tags: literary fiction, family, grief.
Agnes Hathaway holds her Stratford family together while her husband works in London, until plague takes eleven-year-old Hamnet in 1596.
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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Because shares tags: literary fiction, family, grief.
Nine year old Oskar searches New York for a lock matching his father's key after 9/11.
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She's Come Undone
Because also by Wally Lamb; shares tags: literary fiction, family.
Abused as a girl, divorced and struggling with weight, Dolores Price slowly finds healing after years of trauma.
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The Namesake
Because shares tags: literary fiction, family.
Jhumpa Lahiri follows Gogol Ganguli from a hated namesake to adult loss, marriage, and family reckoning between Calcutta and Boston.
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The God of Small Things
Because shares tags: literary fiction, family.
Twins Rahel and Estha grow up in Kerala in 1969, where family rules and caste lines shape a loss that follows them into adulthood.
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On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Because shares tags: literary fiction, family.
A son writes to the mother who cannot read him: war, migration, first love, and loss in one Vietnamese American family in Hartford.
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Go Set a Watchman
Because shares tags: literary fiction, family.
Jean Louise Finch returns to Maycomb and finds her father changed: Lee's contested 2015 draft about family loyalty and race in Alabama.
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Convenience Store Woman
Because shares tags: literary fiction, family.
At 36, Keiko has worked at a Tokyo convenience store for 18 years and loves it. Family pressure to marry pushes her toward a strange fake…
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A Monster Calls
Because shares tags: grief, family.
A grieving boy is visited at 12:07 by a yew tree monster whose three tales force his hidden truth about his mother's illness.
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Tom Lake
Because shares tags: literary fiction, family.
Lara tells daughters about young love with actor Peter Duke at Tom Lake.
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The Paper Palace
Because shares tags: literary fiction, family.
Elle faces Jonas choice at Cape Cod while assault memory returns.
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The Karamazov Brothers
Because shares tags: literary fiction, family.
Dmitri, Ivan, and Alyosha Karamazov face their father, murder, faith, and doubt in Dostoevsky's final novel.
