Book reviews & excerpts from books about parenting, family and relationships
Parenting & Families
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The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America
by Monica Potts
Hardcover: May 2023
Paperback: Apr 2024
Talented and ambitious, Monica Potts and her best friend, Darci, were both determined to make something of themselves. How did their lives turn out so different?
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Dirt Creek: A Novel
by Hayley Scrivenor
Hardcover: Aug 2022
Paperback: May 2023
In Hayley Scrivenor's Dirt Creek, a small-town debut mystery described as The Dry meets Everything I Never Told You, a girl goes missing and a community falls apart and comes together.
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Seeking Fortune Elsewhere
by Sindya Bhanoo
Hardcover: Mar 2022
Paperback: May 2023
These intimate stories of South Indian immigrants and the families they left behind center women's lives and ask how women both claim and surrender power - a stunning debut collection from an O. Henry Prize winner.
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Orphan Bachelors: A Memoir
by Fae Myenne Ng
Hardcover: May 2023
Paperback: May 2024
From the bestselling and award-winning author of novels Bone and Steer Toward Rock, Fae Myenne Ng's Orphan Bachelors is an extraordinary memoir of her beloved San Francisco's Chinatown and of a family building a life in a country bent on their ...
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Ghost Girl, Banana: A Novel
by Wiz Wharton
Hardcover: Apr 2023
Set between the last years of the "Chinese Windrush" in 1966 and Hong Kong's Handover to China in 1997, a mysterious inheritance sees a young woman from London uncovering buried secrets in her late mother's homeland in this captivating, wry debut ...
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The Caretakers: A Novel
by Amanda Bestor-Siegal
Hardcover: Apr 2022
Paperback: Apr 2023
Set in a wealthy Parisian suburb, an emotionally riveting debut told from the point of view of six women, and centered around a group of au pairs, one of whom is arrested after a sudden and suspicious tragedy strikes her host family - a dramatic ...
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You Have a Friend in 10A: Stories
by Maggie Shipstead
Hardcover: May 2022
Paperback: Apr 2023
From the Booker Prize nominee and New York Times bestselling author of Great Circle, a piercing, irresistible first collection of short stories exquisite in their craft and audacious in their range.
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It. Goes. So. Fast.: The Year of No Do-Overs
by Mary Louise Kelly
Hardcover: Apr 2023
Operating Instructions meets Glennon Doyle in this new book by famed NPR reporter Mary Louise Kelly that is destined to become a classic—about the year before her son goes to college—and the joys, losses and surprises that happen along ...
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