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Published Sep 2025
No one will love you more or hurt you more than a sister.
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by Susie Boyt
Published Sep 2023
Love and Missed is a whip-smart, incisive, and mordantly witty novel about love's gains and missteps. British writer Susie Boyt's seventh novel, and the first to be published in the United States, is a triumph.
by JoAnne Tompkins
Published Apr 2022
After the shocking death of two teenage boys tears apart a community in the Pacific Northwest, a mysterious pregnant girl emerges out of the woods and into the lives of those same boys' families - a moving and hopeful novel about forgiveness and human connection.
by Jane Johnson
Published Jan 2021
A broken family, a house of secrets - an entrancing tale of love and courage set during the Second World War.
by Jeff Zentner
Published Mar 2018
A novel about finding strength and hope after tragedy. Perfect for fans of Me and Earl and the Dying Girl and Looking for Alaska.
by Emily Chenoweth
Published Jun 2011
In a single week, a family leaves behind its past and a daughter awakens to the future in Emily Chenoweths intimate and beautifully crafted debut novel.
by Cheryl Strayed
Published Jan 2007
A family founders after a mother's death in this beautifully observed debut. Cheryl Strayed has a deep appreciation for the shifting rhythms between siblings and parents and for the beautiful terrors of learning how to keep living. The wonderful characters in Torch come alive and ...
by Alice Sebold
Published Apr 2004
A 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 Caroline Leavitt
Published Sep 2003
"Rarely has an author succeeded so splendidly at making real the inexplicable event (here a life-threatening childbirth) while also reminding us of the struggle between sisters, the enchantment of love, and the kindness of others. Do not miss this novel!"
by James Patterson
Published Apr 2002
Beautifully captures the joys of a new family as it builds to an overwhelmingly moving climax. This is an unforgettable love story, at once heartbreaking and full of hope.
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