Tag: family

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Wrong Place Wrong Time

Gillian McAllister · 2022

Jen sees her son Todd kill a stranger, then wakes the day before, slipping back in time to stop the murder.

2,522-word summary · 11 min read

Tom Lake

Ann Patchett · 2023

Lara tells daughters about young love with actor Peter Duke at Tom Lake.

2,600-word summary · 12 min read

The Push

Ashley Audrain · 2021

Blythe fears daughter Violet is dangerous while husband Fox doubts her.

2,260-word summary · 10 min read

The Paper Palace

Miranda Cowley Heller · 2021

Elle faces Jonas choice at Cape Cod while assault memory returns.

2,588-word summary · 12 min read

The Locked Door

Freida McFadden · 2021

Surgeon Nora Davis hides serial killer father while patients die.

2,465-word summary · 11 min read

The Last Lecture

Randy Pausch · 2008

Dying professor Pausch lectures really achieving childhood dreams.

2,579-word summary · 11 min read

The Karamazov Brothers

Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1880

Dmitri, Ivan, and Alyosha Karamazov face their father, murder, faith, and doubt in Dostoevsky's final novel.

2,512-word summary · 11 min read

Still Alice

Lisa Genova · 2007

Harvard professor Alice Howland faces early onset Alzheimer's and her family must adapt as memory fades.

2,477-word summary · 11 min read

She's Come Undone

Wally Lamb · 1992

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

Safe Haven

Nicholas Sparks · 2010

Katie hides in Southport from a violent husband and falls for widower Alex.

2,480-word summary · 11 min read

Running with Scissors

Augusten Burroughs · 2002

A boy sent to live with his mother's psychiatrist grows up in a chaotic house with no rules.

2,036-word summary · 9 min read