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Generational & Family Sagas
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Search results: The best new books - Excerpts & reviews from exceptional books with a family saga as a central theme
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What Is Left the Daughter: A Novel
by Howard Norman
Hardcover: Jul 2010
Paperback: 3 May 2011
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| Seventeen-year-old Wyatt Hillyer is suddenly orphaned when his parents commit suicide, causing him to move to a small-town, and setting in motion the novel's chain of life-altering passions, including the fathering of a beloved daughter. |
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The White Woman on the Green Bicycle: A Novel
by Monique Roffey
Paperback: 26 Apr 2011
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| A beautifully written, unforgettable novel of a troubled marriage, set against the lush landscape and political turmoil of Trinidad |
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Pearl of China: A Novel
by Anchee Min
Hardcover: Mar 2010
Paperback: 29 Mar 2011
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| From the bestselling author of Red Azalea and Empress Orchid comes the powerful story of the friendship of a lifetime, based on the life of Pearl S. Buck. |
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Galore: A Novel
by Michael Crummey
Paperback: 29 Mar 2011
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| Sprawling and intimate, stark and fantastical, Galore is a novel about the power of stories to shape and sustain us. |
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A Visit from the Goon Squad
by Jennifer Egan
Hardcover: Jun 2010
Paperback: 22 Mar 2011
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| A Visit from the Goon Squad is a book about the interplay of time and music, about survival, about the stirrings and transformations set inexorably in motion by even the most passing conjunction of our fates. Sly, startling, exhilarating work from one of our boldest writers. |
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
by Rebecca Skloot
Hardcover: Feb 2010
Paperback: 8 Mar 2011
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Winner of BookBrowse's 2010 Best Book Award
Intimate in feeling, astonishing in scope, and impossible to put down, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks captures the beauty and drama of scientific discovery, as well as its human consequences. |
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Burning Bright: Stories
by Ron Rash
Hardcover: Mar 2010
Paperback: 1 Feb 2011
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| In Burning Bright, Pen/Faulkner finalist and New York Times bestselling author of Serena, Ron Rash, captures the eerie beauty and stark violence of Appalachia through the lives of unforgettable characters. With this masterful collection of stories that span the Civil War to the present day, Rash, a supremely talented writer who “recalls both John Steinbeck and Cormac McCarthy” (The New Yorker), solidifies his reputation as a major contemporary American literary artist. |
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Bloodroot
by Amy Greene
Hardcover: Jan 2010
Paperback: 4 Jan 2011
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| Named for a flower whose blood-red sap possesses the power both to heal and poison, Bloodroot is a stunning fiction debut about the legacies—of magic and madness, faith and secrets, passion and loss—that haunt one family across the generations, from the Great Depression to today. |
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