Tag Archives: Family Life

Conviction

by Elizabeth Winthrop

The story of a young, American woman’s misguided journey to join ISIS and the grief of the mother she leaves behind—a gripping and thought-provoking…

A Private Man

by Stephanie Sy-Quia

“It’s a rare pleasure to read this novel.”—Sarah Moss, author of Ripeness “This one’s going to stick for a while.”—Leif Enger, bestselling author of I Cheerfully…

The Animal Room

by Lauren Acampora

From the award-winning author of The Wonder Garden comes a set of linked stories spotlighting human-animal relations—and revealing the tensions that threaten to fracture a suburban…

The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother)

by Rabih Alameddine

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION “Alameddine is a writer with a boundless imagination.”—NPR From National Book Award finalist and winner of…

Crown

by Evanthia Bromiley

“A book built of deep suspense, a survival story of the first order . . . Evanthia Bromiley writes at the intersection of poverty…

The Son of Man

by Jean-Baptiste Del Amo

A DUA LIPA SERVICE95 BOOK CLUB PICK From the author of the “extraordinary” Animalia (Sunday Times), winner of the Republic of Consciousness Prize and finalist for…

Blue Light Hours

by Bruna Dantas Lobato

“Astonishingly beautiful . . . It’s a revelation.”—Jenny Offill, New York Times bestselling author of Weather From the National Book Award-winning translator, an atmospheric and wise debut…

City of Laughter

by Temim Fruchter

A rich and riveting debut spanning four generations of Eastern European Jewish women bound by blood, half-hidden secrets, and the fantastical visitation of a…

Brother Alive

by Zain Khalid

From the winner of the NYPL Young Lions Fiction Award and the CLMP Firecracker Award, and finalist for the NBCC John Leonard Prize, an astonishing debut novel about family, sexuality, and capitalist systems of control, following three adopted brothers who live above a mosque in Staten Island with their imam…

Ocean State

by Stewart O'Nan

Set in a working-class town on the Rhode Island coast, O’Nan’s latest is a crushing, beautifully written, and profoundly compelling novel about sisters, mothers, and daughters, and the terrible things love makes us do