Books like The Namesake
If you liked The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.
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On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Because shares tags: literary fiction, family, coming of age.
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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The God of Small Things
Because shares tags: literary fiction, family, coming of age.
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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Go Set a Watchman
Because shares tags: literary fiction, family, coming of age.
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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She's Come Undone
Because shares tags: literary fiction, coming of age, family.
Abused as a girl, divorced and struggling with weight, Dolores Price slowly finds healing after years of trauma.
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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Because shares tags: literary fiction, family, coming of age.
Nine year old Oskar searches New York for a lock matching his father's key after 9/11.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Because shares tags: coming of age, literary fiction, family.
Curious Incident retold: Christopher finds Wellington dead, maps primes, seeks truth in Swindon.
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The Lincoln Highway
Because shares tags: literary fiction, coming of age.
Emmett and Billy plan California in 1954, but two escapees steal their car and drag them east to New York.
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I Know This Much Is True
Because shares tags: literary fiction, family.
A housepainter fights to free his schizophrenic twin from a locked ward while a grandfather's memoir and a lost marriage resurface. Long,…
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Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
Because shares tags: coming of age, family.
A Chinese American boy befriends a Japanese American girl in wartime Seattle, then loses her to the internment camps.
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Hamnet
Because shares tags: literary fiction, family.
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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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 Prayer for Owen Meany
Because shares tags: literary fiction, coming of age.
John Wheelwright believes in God because of Owen Meany, the tiny friend whose foul ball killed his mother.
