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by Lisa Lee
Published Mar 2026
Read ReviewsGrowing up in the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1980s, Jane Kim and her brother, Kevin, dutifully embodied the model minority myth as their parents demanded: both stellar tennis players and academically gifted, they worked hard to make their parents proud.
by Jacqueline Woodson
Published May 2025
Read ReviewsWinner: BookBrowse YA Book Award 2023
National Book Award winner Jacqueline Woodson brings readers a powerful story that delves deeply into life's burning questions about time and memory and what we take with us into the future.
by Jen Ferguson
Published Oct 2024
Read ReviewsIn her remarkable second novel following her Governor General's Award-winning debut, The Summer of Bitter and Sweet, Jen Ferguson writes about the hurt of a life stuck in past tense, the hum of connections that cannot be severed, and one week in a small, snowy town that changes everything.
by Tracey Lien
Published Sep 2023
Read ReviewsFor fans of Everything I Never Told You and The Mothers, a deeply moving and unflinching debut following a young Vietnamese-Australian woman who returns home to her family in the wake of her brother's shocking murder, determined to discover what happened - a dramatic exploration of the intricate bonds and obligations of friendship, family, and ...
by Hayley Scrivenor
Published May 2023
Read ReviewsIn 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.
by Linda Rui Feng
Published May 2022
Read ReviewsA lyrical novel set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution that follows a father's quest to reunite his family before his precocious daughter's momentous birthday, which Garth Greenwell calls "one of the most beautiful debuts I've read in years."
by Megan Abbott
Published May 2022
Read ReviewsBestselling and award-winning author Megan Abbott's revelatory and mesmerizing new novel set against the hothouse of a family-run ballet studio.
by Alexis Schaitkin
Published May 2021
Read ReviewsHailed as a "marvel of a book" and "brilliant and unflinching," Alexis Schaitkin's stunning debut, Saint X, is a haunting portrait of grief, obsession, and the bond between two sisters never truly given the chance to know one another.
by Meng Jin
Published Jan 2021
Read ReviewsCombining the emotional resonance of Home Fire with the ambition and innovation of Asymmetry, a lyrical and thought-provoking debut novel that explores the complex web of grief, memory, time, physics, history, and selfhood in the immigrant experience, and the complicated bond between daughters and mothers.
by Francesca Hornak
Published Oct 2018
Read ReviewsA warm, wry, sharply observed debut novel about what happens when a family is forced to spend a week together in quarantine over the holidays...
by Laura McHugh
Published May 2017
Read ReviewsA haunting novel from the author of The Weight of Blood about a young woman's return to her childhood homeand her encounter with the memories and secrets it holds
by Elizabeth Cox
Published Oct 2016
Read ReviewsAdam Finney, a young man who is mentally disabled, faces sterilization and lobotomy in a state-supported asylum. When he is found dead in the French Broad River of rural North Carolina, his teenaged stepsister, Jess, is sought for questioning by their family and the police.
by Owen Sheers
Published Jul 2016
Read ReviewsAn utterly stunning novel of love, loss, the insidious nature of secrets, and the transformative power of words. I Saw a Man fulfills the promise of Owen Sheers's acclaimed novel, Resistance.
by Jan Ellison
Published Feb 2016
Read ReviewsWith the emotional complexity of Everything I Never Told You and the psychological suspense of The Girl on the Train, O. Henry Prize winner Jan Ellison delivers a brilliantly paced, beautifully written debut novel about one woman's reckoning with a youthful mistake.
Named one of the best books of the year by San Francisco Chronicle
by William Kent Krueger
Published Mar 2014
Read ReviewsTold from Frank's perspective forty years after that fateful summer, Ordinary Grace is a brilliantly moving account of a boy standing at the door of his young manhood, trying to understand a world that seems to be falling apart around him.
by William Landay
Published Feb 2013
Read ReviewsAward-winning author William Landay has written the consummate novel of an embattled family in crisis - a suspenseful, character-driven mystery that is also a spellbinding tale of guilt, betrayal, and the terrifying speed at which our lives can spin out of control.
by Kevin Wilson
Published Apr 2012
Read ReviewsMeet The Family Fang, an unforgettable collection of demanding, brilliant, and absolutely endearing oddballs whose lives are risky and mischievous performance art.
by Gayle Forman
Published Apr 2010
Read ReviewsIn a single moment, everything changes. Seventeen-year-old Mia has no memory of the accident; she can only recall riding along the snow-wet Oregon road with her family. Then, in a blink, she finds herself watching as her own damaged body is taken from the wreck...
by T Jefferson Parker
Published Jan 2006
Read ReviewsThe emotionally wrenching tale of three brothers and the brutal act that irrevocably changes their lives.
by Gish Jen
Published Oct 2005
Read ReviewsPowerfully evoking the contemporary American family in all its fragility and strength, Gish Jen has given us her most exuberant and accomplished novel about the new "half-half" American family.
by Alice Sebold
Published Apr 2004
Read ReviewsA luminous and astonishing novel that builds out of grief the most hopeful of stories. In the hands of a brilliant new writer, this story of the worst thing a family can face is transformed into a suspenseful and even funny novel about love, memory, joy, heaven, and healing.
by Elizabeth Strout
Published Feb 2000
Read ReviewsAmy Goodrow, a shy high school student in a small mill town, falls in love with her math teacher, and together they cross the line between understandable fantasy and disturbing reality.
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