Book reviews & excerpts from books about parenting, family and relationships
Parenting & Families
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Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
by Lea Ypi
Hardcover: Jan 2022
Paperback: Jan 2022
A reflection on "freedom" in a dramatic, beautifully written memoir of the end of Communism in the Balkans. Longlisted for the 2021 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction.
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Watch Over Me
by Nina LaCour
Hardcover: Sep 2020
Paperback: Jan 2022
Nina LaCour delivers another emotional knockout with Watch Over Me, the much-anticipated follow-up to the Printz Award-winning We Are Okay.
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Nights When Nothing Happened
by Simon Han
Hardcover: Nov 2020
Paperback: Nov 2021
From the outside, the Chengs seem like so-called model immigrants. Once Patty landed a tech job near Dallas, she and Liang grew secure enough to have a second child, and to send for their first from his grandparents back in China. Isn't this what ...
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To Be a Man
by Nicole Krauss
Hardcover: Nov 2020
Paperback: Nov 2021
In this dazzling collection of short fiction, the National Book Award Finalist and New York Times bestselling author of The History of Love - "one of America's most important novelists and an international literary sensation" (New York Times) - ...
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Flesh & Blood: Reflections on Infertility, Family, and Creating a Bountiful Life: A Memoir
by N. West Moss
Hardcover: Oct 2021
In her wise and witty memoir, N. West Moss discovers how she has been building a fruitful life and legacy - full of curiosity, creativity, and connection - while simultaneously dealing with infertility and illness. This beautifully written book ...
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Infinite Country
by Patricia Engel
Hardcover: Feb 2021
Paperback: Oct 2021
For readers of Valeria Luiselli and Edwidge Danticat, an urgent and lyrical novel about a Colombian family fractured by deportation, offering an intimate perspective on an experience that so many have endured - and are enduring right now.
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Detransition, Baby
by Torrey Peters
Hardcover: Jan 2021
Paperback: Oct 2021
Reese almost had it all: a loving relationship with Amy, an apartment in New York City, a job she didn't hate. She had scraped together what previous generations of trans women could only dream of: a life of mundane, bourgeois comforts. The only ...
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The Distant Dead
by Heather Young
Hardcover: Jun 2020
Paperback: Aug 2021
A young boy finds himself at the center of a murder mystery in this timely and twisty thriller from the author of the acclaimed The Lost Girls - a compelling and indelible story set in small town America that examines the burden of guilt, the bitter ...
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