Crazy Rich Asians
Rachel Chu flies to Singapore with Nick Young and learns his family is not just rich but dynasty rich, with mothers, aunties, and weddings testing every bond.
2,117-word summary · 9 min read
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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
When Breath Becomes Air
A neurosurgeon facing terminal cancer asks what makes life meaningful when time runs out.
2,060-word summary · 9 min read
Then She Was Gone
Ten years after Ellie vanished, her mother finds a link in a new family.
1,956-word summary · 9 min read
The Vanishing Half
Twin sisters split as one lives Black and one passes as white.
1,971-word summary · 9 min read
The Red Tent
Dinah retells Genesis from the women's tent, loving Jacob's wives and surviving Shechem and Egypt.
2,014-word summary · 9 min read
The Poisonwood Bible
A missionary drags his wife and four daughters to the Congo in 1959, and Africa remakes each of them.
2,227-word summary · 10 min read
The Joy Luck Club
Four Chinese mothers and four American daughters trade sixteen stories across the mahjong table.
1,941-word summary · 9 min read
The Husband's Secret
Cecilia finds a letter meant to be opened after her husband's death, and reads it while he lives.
1,985-word summary · 9 min read
The Four Winds
Elsa Martinelli fights the Dust Bowl to save her Texas farm, then risks everything on the road to California.
2,099-word summary · 9 min read
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.
2,001-word summary · 9 min read
Regretting You
A mother and daughter grieve the same men differently after a crash, and secrets about paternity test them both.
2,182-word summary · 10 min read