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And the Mountains Echoed
When Abdullah and Pari are split in 1952 Afghanistan, their parting echoes across decades from Kabul to Paris to California in linked stories of loss and…
2,572-word summary · 11 min read
family + literary fiction
15 books tagged both “family” and “literary fiction”.
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Homegoing
Half sisters Effia and Esi lines span Ghana to America across centuries.
2,552-word summary · 11 min read
Klara and the Sun
Solar robot Klara loves Josie and bargains with the Sun to save her.
2,251-word summary · 10 min read
Mansfield Park
Fanny Price loves Edmund amid Crawfords theatricals at Mansfield.
2,389-word summary · 11 min read
She's Come Undone
Abused as a girl, divorced and struggling with weight, Dolores Price slowly finds healing after years of trauma.
2,550-word summary · 11 min read
The Karamazov Brothers
Dmitri, Ivan, and Alyosha Karamazov face their father, murder, faith, and doubt in Dostoevsky's final novel.
2,512-word summary · 11 min read
The Paper Palace
Elle faces Jonas choice at Cape Cod while assault memory returns.
2,588-word summary · 12 min read
Tom Lake
Lara tells daughters about young love with actor Peter Duke at Tom Lake.
2,600-word summary · 12 min read
Cutting for Stone
Twin surgeon brothers come of age in Ethiopia and America in Verghese's sweeping medical saga.
2,664-word summary · 12 min read
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Nine year old Oskar searches New York for a lock matching his father's key after 9/11.
2,999-word summary · 13 min read
Everything I Never Told You
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, school and duty that…
2,711-word summary · 12 min read
The Memory Keeper's Daughter
On a snowy night a doctor gives away his newborn daughter and tells his wife she died.
2,154-word summary · 10 min read