Family life fiction

A Southern Cinderella story with heart, soul, and humor.

Sadie Jones has a long literary future ahead of her.

Oates is a fearless writer.

This is family life today at its most believable: warm and messy, bored and raging.

A woman must face the truth about her past in this luminous, evocative novel of parents and children, guilt and forgiveness, memory and magical thinking.

To Frances, an only child living in McCarthy-era Brooklyn, her mother, Hilda, and her aunt Pearl seem as if they have always been friends.

Many rumors abound about a mysterious gentleman said to be the love of Jane's lifefinally, the truth may have been found.

In the summer of 1976, during their annual retreat on Cape Cod, the McKotch family came apart.

A funny and moving debut novel that follows four generations of a singularly weird American family, all living under one roof, as each member confronts a moment of crisis in a narrative told through a uniquely quirky, charming, and unforgettable voice.

Shriver has a gift for creating real and complicated characters A highly engrossing novel.

From Yannick Murphy, award-winning author of The Call, comes a fast-paced story of murder, adultery, parenthood, and romance, involving a girls swim team, their morally flawed parents, and a killer who swims in their midst.

Mary Hogans powerful and poignant debut novel about two sistersopposites in every wayplus their mother and the secrets and lies that define them all.

Renovating an historic Memphis house together, three cousins discover that their spectacular failures in love, career, and family provide the foundation for their future happiness in this warm and poignant novel from the author of The Roots of the Olive Tree that is reminiscent of The Postmistress, The Secret Life of Bees, and Kristin Hannahs novels.

The Average American Marriage, the long-awaited sequel to Chad Kultgens much debated, always controversial The Average American Male, is a matter-of-fact foray into the male mind and sexual fantasy.

The Girls' Almanac chronicles the lives of Jenna and Lucytwo thirty-something women who desperately long for a true friendas well as the lives of the women and men who have touched them: friends, lovers, parents, and neighbors.

The USA Today bestselling author of The Midwife of Hope River returns with a heartfelt sequel, a novel teeming with life and full of humor and warmth, one that celebrates the human spirit.

Driving home at dusk, Claire Andrews, an art history professor at a prestigious New England university, accidentally strikes and kills a boy.

Joanne Harris, bestselling author of Chocolat, presents her most accomplished novel yet -- an intoxicating concoction that blends theology and reason, deception and masquerade, with a dash of whimsical humor and a soupon of sensuality.

A quiet little stunner, written with the sure hand of an artist and the ear of a seasoned storyteller.

Donald Hall draws on his own childhood memories and gives himself the thing he most wanted but didn't get as a boy: a Christmas at Eagle Pond.

Kristina Riggle, the acclaimed author of Real Life Liars, returns with a thought-provoking novel inspired by real-life eventsSeventeen-year-old Morgan Monetti shocks her parents and her community with one simple act: She chooses to stand by the man everyone else believes has exploited herpopular high school teacher TJ Hill.

Complex and nervy, Shrivers clever meditation will intrigue anyone who has ever wondered how things might have turned out had they followed, or ignored, a life-changing impulse.

In bestselling Irish author Chris Binchys first U.

Sweet, funny L.

For fans of Crazy Rich Asians: Meet the Wangs, the unforgettable immigrant family whose spectacular fall from glorious riches to (still name-brand) rags brings them together in a way money never could.

James Rudolph Youngblood, aka Jimmy the Kid, is an enforcer, a "e;ghost rider"e; for the Maceo brothers, Rosario and Sam, rulers of "e;the Free State of Galveston,"e; who are prospering through illicit pleasures in the midst of the Great Depression.

Nikki Eaton, single, thirty-one, sexually liberated, and economically self-supporting, has never particularly thought of herself as a daughter.

Girl Trouble, a Harper Perennial paperback original, is Rona Jaffe Award winner Holly Goddard Joness debut short story collection, set around small-town Southerners caught in moral and sometimes mortal quandaries.

Bockoven is magic.

Jean wouldnt be able stand it if something unfortunate were to befall her friendsthats why decides to kill them herself, before anything else can harm them.

Things We Didnt Say is impossible to put down, and even harder to let go of.

One of the United Kingdoms most popular authorsa #1 London Times bestsellerJosephine Cox will delight fans of Rosamund Pilcher, Barbara Delinsky, and Amanda Stevens with this heartbreaking, engrossing, electrifyingly exciting and dramatic story of a love triangle gone terribly wrong.

Trapped in a small, poverty-ridden town in 1933, under pressure from his father to go into the family business, seventeen-year-old Dominic Molise yearns to fulfill his own dreams.

The greatest crime writer of our time, perhaps ever!

"e;[Haigh is] an expertnatural storyteller with an acute sense of her characters' humanity.

Little Bird of Heaven by Joyce Carol Oates is a riveting story of love violently lost and found in late 20th century America.

Bakerton is a community of company houses and church festivals, of union squabbles and firemen's parades.

In a Perfect World is critically acclaimed writer Laura Kasischkes new novel of marriage, motherhood, and the choices we make when we have no choices left.

Cross a road, take a train, or get on an airplane and you put your life in the hands of a stranger -- every bit as screwed up, every bit as fallible and as human as you are.

From the Bestselling Author of Friendship Cake Comes a Remarkable Story of Love, Loss, Infidelity, and Forgiveness

In the summer of 1976, during their annual retreat on Cape Cod, the McKotch family came apart.

In a summer cottage on the coast of Maine, an unlikely love was nurtured, a marriage endured, and a family survived.

Over the course of one year, in a charming cottage by the sea, eight people will discover love and remembrance, reconciliation and reunion, beginnings and endings in this unforgettable sequel to Georgia Bockovens The Beach House and Another Summer.

Sometimes you find happiness where, and when, you least expect it.

Bockoven is magic.

With "e;echoes of Of Mice and Men"e;(The Bookseller, UK), The Motel Life explores the frustrations and failed dreams of two Nevada brotherson the run after a hit-and-run accidentwho, forgotten by society, and short on luck and hope, desperately cling to the edge of modern life.

A witty and irresistible story of a mother and daughter regarding each other through the looking glass of time, grief, and forgiveness.

In the heat of late summer, two New Orleans familiesone black and one whiteconfront a storm that will change the course of their lives.

Author ofThe Association of Small Bombs, longlisted for the National Book AwardRakesh Ahuja, a Government Minister in New Delhi, is beset by problems: thirteen children and another on the way; a wife who mourns the loss of her favorite TV star; and a teenaged son with somereallystrong opinions about family planning.