Carrie Soto Is Back
Champion Carrie Soto returns at thirty seven with father Javier to reclaim twenty Slams.
2,097-word summary · 9 min read
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When Breath Becomes Air
A neurosurgeon facing terminal cancer asks what makes life meaningful when time runs out.
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Then She Was Gone
Ten years after Ellie vanished, her mother finds a link in a new family.
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The Vanishing Half
Twin sisters split as one lives Black and one passes as white.
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The Red Tent
Dinah retells Genesis from the women's tent, loving Jacob's wives and surviving Shechem and Egypt.
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The Poisonwood Bible
A missionary drags his wife and four daughters to the Congo in 1959, and Africa remakes each of them.
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The Joy Luck Club
Four Chinese mothers and four American daughters trade sixteen stories across the mahjong table.
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The Husband's Secret
Cecilia finds a letter meant to be opened after her husband's death, and reads it while he lives.
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The Four Winds
Elsa Martinelli fights the Dust Bowl to save her Texas farm, then risks everything on the road to California.
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The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Eddie the ride mechanic dies saving a child and meets five people who explain what his life meant.
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Regretting You
A mother and daughter grieve the same men differently after a crash, and secrets about paternity test them both.
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Pet Sematary
Doctor Louis buries Church and then Gage in ground that returns them wrong, learning dead is better.
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Me Talk Pretty One Day
Sedaris on French classes, family chaos, and learning to speak badly in two languages.
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Everything, Everything
Maddy, allergic to the world, falls for Olly next door and risks outside to test what is true.
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Dark Places
Libby Day, sole survivor of family murders, is paid to rethink her testimony.
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Born a Crime
Noah's memoir of growing up mixed-race under apartheid, raised by a fearless mother in Soweto.
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Before We Were Yours
Avery uncovers her family's link to stolen orphans while Rill fights to keep her siblings together in 1939.
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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.
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American Dirt
Lydia and Luca flee Acapulco after cartel murder and ride north through Mexico toward the US.
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All Your Perfects
Quinn and Graham's perfect love frays under infertility, and they must decide what perfect means now.
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We Were Liars
Cadence Sinclair returns to Beechwood Island after an accident she cannot recall, chasing summers with Johnny, Mirren and Gat toward the truth.
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To All the Boys I've Loved Before
Lara Jean's secret love letters get mailed and she fake-dates Peter Kavinsky to dodge Josh.
3,683-word summary · 16 min read
Things We Never Got Over
Naomi runs from her wedding to help her twin in Knockemout and clashes with Knox Morgan.
3,358-word summary · 15 min read