Final Offer
Cal Kane must spend the summer at Lake Wisteria to inherit, but his childhood ex Lana, now a mother, says the house belongs to her family.
2,379-word summary · 11 min read
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Death of a Salesman
Willy Loman unravels as sons Biff and Happy return home, while Linda holds on and old Ben calls, toward a Requiem after a night in Boston.
2,343-word summary · 10 min read
David Copperfield
Orphan Davy from Blunderstone through Murdstone, Micawber, Heep, Dora and Agnes to novelist.
2,199-word summary · 10 min read
Check & Mate
Mallory quit chess after a family crisis, beats world champion Nolan Sawyer at a charity event, then rejoins the circuit to win cash for her family.
2,321-word summary · 10 min read
Between Shades of Gray
In 1941, fifteen-year-old Lina is deported from Lithuania to Siberia and uses her drawings to survive and send word to her father.
2,263-word summary · 10 min read
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
Twelve-year-old Margaret navigates puberty in New Jersey while trying to choose a religion on her own.
2,178-word summary · 10 min read
Are You My Mother?
A newborn bird falls from the nest and asks a kitten, a hen, a dog, a cow, a plane and a giant Snort if any will be his mother.
2,351-word summary · 10 min read
To Sir Phillip, With Love
Outspoken Eloise writes a grieving botanist, visits unchaperoned, and stays for twins.
2,013-word summary · 9 min read
The Friend Zone
Kristen will not risk pregnancy, Josh wants kids, and their friends only plan keeps failing.
2,039-word summary · 9 min read
Naked
Growing up odd in Carolina, working bad jobs, and learning to watch people closely and kindly.
2,020-word summary · 9 min read
Drums of Autumn
Brianna crosses stones to save parents, finding love, assault fallout, and a home to build.
2,003-word summary · 9 min read
Because of Winn-Dixie
Lonely Opal names a stray Winn-Dixie and finds ten friends, plus a way to ask her preacher father hard things.
2,024-word summary · 9 min read
Always and Forever, Lara Jean
Senior year brings college letters, distance from Peter, and a dad wedding Lara Jean helps hold together.
2,037-word summary · 9 min read
Without Merit
Merit Voss feels invisible in a crowded converted church home until Sagan, Luck, and a painful night force the truth out.
3,300-word summary · 15 min read
Winter Garden
Two sisters keep a deathbed promise: hear their cold mother's Russian fairy tale to the end, and find besieged Leningrad inside it.
2,983-word summary · 13 min read
Tuck Everlasting
Winnie Foster meets the immortal Tuck family in the woods and must decide whether to drink from their spring.
2,750-word summary · 12 min read
Truly Madly Guilty
A Sydney barbecue turns when two-year-old Ruby falls in a fountain. Three couples face guilt, marriage strain, and repair.
2,892-word summary · 13 min read
Things We Left Behind
Lucian Rollins returns to Knockemout to bury his father's past and collides with librarian Sloane Walton.
2,777-word summary · 12 min read
The Pact
After Emily Gold dies from a gunshot, her boyfriend Chris Harte says it was a suicide pact and faces trial for murder.
2,873-word summary · 13 min read
The Namesake
Jhumpa Lahiri follows Gogol Ganguli from a hated namesake to adult loss, marriage, and family reckoning between Calcutta and Boston.
2,878-word summary · 13 min read
The God of Small Things
Twins Rahel and Estha grow up in Kerala in 1969, where family rules and caste lines shape a loss that follows them into adulthood.
2,646-word summary · 12 min read
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
A son writes to the mother who cannot read him: war, migration, first love, and loss in one Vietnamese American family in Hartford.
3,113-word summary · 14 min read
My Sister, the Serial Killer
Korede covers up her sister Ayoola's murders in Lagos until Ayoola starts dating Tade, the doctor Korede secretly loves.
2,739-word summary · 12 min read
Little House on the Prairie
The Ingalls family leaves Wisconsin for Kansas, builds a log house, and faces wolves, fire, and fever.
3,002-word summary · 13 min read