The Secret Life of Bees
Lily runs from her father with Rosaleen to Tiburon, finding shelter with beekeeping sisters.
2,207-word summary · 10 min read
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The Lovely Bones
Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones retold: Susie watches from above as her family hunts her killer.
2,257-word summary · 10 min read
The Glass Castle
Jeannette Walls's memoir of a childhood spent hungry and moving, from a stove fire at three to a Bronx apartment and parents on the street.
2,255-word summary · 10 min read
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Curious Incident retold: Christopher finds Wellington dead, maps primes, seeks truth in Swindon.
2,146-word summary · 10 min read
Reminders of Him
Kenna returns after prison to meet the daughter she lost, facing the family that blames her.
2,168-word summary · 10 min read
My Sister's Keeper
Thirteen-year-old Anna sues her parents for medical emancipation so she can refuse to give her dying sister Kate a kidney.
2,332-word summary · 10 min read
Little Women
Alcott's Little Women retold: Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy March through the Civil War years and beyond.
2,487-word summary · 11 min read
Educated
Educated retold: Idaho scrapyard, no school, BYU, Cambridge, break with father and brother.
1,931-word summary · 9 min read
It Ends with Us
It Ends with Us from Lily's flower shop to her marriage: alternating past and present, Ryle's cycles of violence, and why the ending refuses a clean romantic…
2,381-word summary · 11 min read