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She's Come Undone
Because shares tags: literary fiction, trauma, family.
Abused as a girl, divorced and struggling with weight, Dolores Price slowly finds healing after years of trauma.
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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 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.
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My Dark Vanessa
Because shares tags: literary fiction, trauma.
Vanessa recalls teacher Strane abuse as adult reckoning looms.
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Mansfield Park
Because shares tags: literary fiction, family.
Fanny Price loves Edmund amid Crawfords theatricals at Mansfield.
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Klara and the Sun
Because shares tags: literary fiction, family.
Solar robot Klara loves Josie and bargains with the Sun to save her.
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Homegoing
Because shares tags: literary fiction, family.
Half sisters Effia and Esi lines span Ghana to America across centuries.
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And the Mountains Echoed
Because shares tags: literary fiction, family.
When Abdullah and Pari are split in 1952 Afghanistan, their parting echoes across decades from Kabul to Paris to California in linked…
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Cutting for Stone
Because shares tags: literary fiction, family.
Twin surgeon brothers come of age in Ethiopia and America in Verghese's sweeping medical saga.
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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Because shares tags: literary fiction, family.
Nine year old Oskar searches New York for a lock matching his father's key after 9/11.
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The Memory Keeper's Daughter
Because shares tags: literary fiction, family.
On a snowy night a doctor gives away his newborn daughter and tells his wife she died.
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Everything I Never Told You
Because shares tags: literary fiction, family.
In 1977 Ohio, sixteen-year-old Lydia Lee is found dead in a lake, forcing her interracial family to face the secret pressures around race,…
