Hamnet
Agnes Hathaway holds her Stratford family together while her husband works in London, until plague takes eleven-year-old Hamnet in 1596.
3,164-word summary · 14 min read
grief + literary fiction
4 books tagged both “grief” and “literary fiction”.
I Know This Much Is True
A housepainter fights to free his schizophrenic twin from a locked ward while a grandfather's memoir and a lost marriage resurface. Long, heavy, hard to forget.
2,533-word summary · 11 min read
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Nine year old Oskar searches New York for a lock matching his father's key after 9/11.
2,999-word summary · 13 min read
Norwegian Wood
Toru recalls 1969 Tokyo, torn between fragile Naoko and lively Midori after a friend's suicide.
2,051-word summary · 9 min read