Siddhartha
A Brahmin son leaves home to find peace beyond teachers and rules.
1,933-word summary · 9 min read
Tag: coming of age
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Norwegian Wood
Toru recalls 1969 Tokyo, torn between fragile Naoko and lively Midori after a friend's suicide.
2,051-word summary · 9 min read
Never Let Me Go
Kathy looks back on Hailsham, the English school where she and her friends were raised for an unspoken purpose.
2,102-word summary · 9 min read
Great Expectations
Orphan Pip chases wealth and Estella through London fog and prison ships.
2,117-word summary · 9 min read
Girl with a Pearl Earring
A maid in Vermeer's Delft household is drawn into the painter's world and into his most famous canvas.
1,973-word summary · 9 min read
Fangirl
Twin Cath Avery starts college clinging to fanfiction while her sister, her dad, and a boy named Levi pull her outward.
2,099-word summary · 9 min read
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
Two Mexican American boys in 1987 El Paso become inseparable and learn what love asks of family.
2,093-word summary · 9 min read
A Walk to Remember
Bad boy Landon falls for pastor's daughter Jamie in 1950s North Carolina.
1,991-word summary · 9 min read
The Summer I Turned Pretty
Belly spends another Cousins summer torn between Conrad and Jeremiah Fisher.
3,556-word summary · 16 min read
The Goldfinch
Theo Decker steals a Dutch painting after a museum blast kills his mother, then drifts through guilt and crime.
3,924-word summary · 17 min read
The Bell Jar
Esther Greenwood wins a New York internship that should feel bright, then sinks into depression at home. Plath's 1963 novel follows her breakdown, treatment,…
2,504-word summary · 11 min read
It
Seven friends in Derry face a shape shifting evil as kids in 1958 and again as adults in 1985.
2,229-word summary · 10 min read