Excerpts & reviews from exceptional books with a family saga as a central theme

Generational Sagas

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Livonia Chow Mein

A Novel

by Abigail Savitch-Lew

Hardcover: Apr 2026

Critics' Consensus:

In the vein of Happiness Falls and Family Lore, a gripping story of family history and political upheaval centered around a Chinese family-owned restaurant in Brownsville, Brooklyn and its impact on the neighborhood's Jewish and Black residents over ...

The Usual Desire to Kill

A Novel

by Camilla Barnes

Hardcover: Apr 2025 | Paperback: Apr 2026

Critics' Consensus:

An often hilarious, surprisingly moving portrait of a long-married couple, seen through the eyes of their wickedly observant daughter—for fans of A Man Called Ove and The Royal Tenenbaums.

Happy Land

by Dolen Perkins-Valdez

Hardcover: Apr 2025 | Paperback: Mar 2026

Critics' Consensus:

A woman learns the incredible story of a real-life American Kingdom—and her family's ties to it—in this enthralling novel from the New York Times bestselling, NAACP Image Award-winning author of Take My Hand.

Autobiography of Cotton

A Novel

by Cristina Rivera Garza

Paperback: Feb 2026

Critics' Consensus:

In 1934, a young José Revueltas traveled to Tamaulipas to support the cotton workers' strike in Estación Camarón, which became the basis of his landmark novel Human Mourning.

The Seven Daughters of Dupree

A Novel

by Nikesha Elise Williams

Hardcover: Jan 2026

Critics' Consensus:

From the two-time Emmy Award–winning producer and host of the Black and Published podcast comes a sweeping multi-generational epic following seven generations of Dupree women as they navigate love, loss, and the unyielding ties of family in the...

This Is Where the Serpent Lives

by Daniyal Mueenuddin

Hardcover: Jan 2026

Critics' Consensus:

A stunning first novel from universally acclaimed Daniyal Mueenuddin, whose debut short story collection won the Story Prize and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Book Prize, the National Book Award, and the Pulitzer Prize.

Roman Year

A Memoir

by Andre Aciman

Hardcover: Oct 2024 | Paperback: Oct 2025

Critics' Consensus:

The author of Call Me by Your Name returns with a deeply romantic memoir of his time in Rome while on the cusp of adulthood.

Saltcrop

A Novel

by Yume Kitasei

Hardcover: Sep 2025 | Paperback: Sep 2026

Critics' Consensus:

From the acclaimed author of The Stardust Grail comes the epic tale of two sisters who sail across oceans to find their missing third sister―and Earth's environmental salvation.

Everything We Never Had

by Randy Ribay

Hardcover: Aug 2024 | Paperback: Aug 2025

Critics' Consensus:

From the author of the National Book Award finalist Patron Saints of Nothing comes an emotionally charged, moving novel about four generations of Filipino American boys grappling with identity, masculinity, and their fraught father-son relationships.

Enlightenment

A Novel

by Sarah Perry

Hardcover: Jun 2024 | Paperback: Jun 2025

Critics' Consensus:

A dazzling new work of literary fiction from the author of The Essex Serpent, a story of love and astronomy told over the course of twenty years through the lives of two improbable best friends.

Long Island Compromise

A Novel

by Taffy Brodesser-Akner

Hardcover: Jul 2024 | Paperback: May 2025

Critics' Consensus:

An exhilarating novel about one American family, the dark moment that shatters their suburban paradise, and the wild legacy of trauma and inheritance, from the New York Times bestselling author of Fleishman Is in Trouble.

The Covenant of Water

by Abraham Verghese

Hardcover: May 2023 | Paperback: May 2025

Critics' Consensus:

Winner: BookBrowse Fiction Award 2023

From the New York Times–bestselling author of Cutting for Stone comes a stunning and magisterial epic of love, faith, and medicine, set in Kerala, South India, and following three generations of a family ...

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