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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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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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Beneath the Lion's Gaze: A Novel
by Maaza Mengiste
Hardcover: Jan 2010
Paperback: 3 Jan 2011
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| An epic tale of a father and two sons, of betrayals and loyalties, of a family unraveling in the wake of Ethiopia’s revolution. |
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Under Fishbone Clouds: A Novel
by Sam Meekings
Hardcover: 7 Dec 2010
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| Sam Meekings's remarkable debut novel showcases his luminous, poetic writing, as well as insights that belong to a writer twice his age. Part love story and part historical narrative, Under Fishbone Clouds carries the weight and beauty of a lifetime's achievement. |
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After the Fire, a Still Small Voice
by Evie Wyld
Hardcover: Aug 2009
Paperback: 2 Nov 2010
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| Set in the haunting landscape of eastern Australia, this is a stunningly accomplished debut novel about the inescapable past: the ineffable ties of family, the wars fought by fathers and sons, and what goes unsaid. |
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Love and Summer: A Novel
by William Trevor
Hardcover: Sep 2009
Paperback: 26 Oct 2010
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| In his characteristically masterly way, Trevor evokes the passions and frustrations of the people of a small Irish town during one long summer. |
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Heliopolis
by James Scudamore
Paperback: 20 Oct 2010
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| By turns darkly humorous and poignant, James Scudamore’s Booker Prize-nominated novel is a highly original, surprising take on the rags-to-riches story. |
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Crossers
by Philip Caputo
Hardcover: Oct 2009
Paperback: 19 Oct 2010
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| When Gil Castle loses his wife in the Twin Tower attacks, he retreats to his family's sprawling homestead in a remote corner of the Southwest, where violence is a constant presence.... Searingly dramatic, bold and timely, Crossers is Philip Caputo's most ambitious and brilliantly realized novel yet. |
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Up from the Blue: A Novel
by Susan Henderson
Paperback: 1 Oct 2010
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| An extraordinary debut from a talented new voice, Up from the Blue untangles the year in Tillie's life that changed everything: 1975, the year her mother disappeared. |
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