Tag Archives: Family Life

City of Laughter
by Temim FruchterA 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 KhalidFrom 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'NanSet 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

Girl, Woman, Other
by Bernardine EvaristoFrom one of Britain’s most celebrated writers of color, a magnificent portrayal of the intersections of identity among an interconnected group of Black British…

The Story of a Goat
by Perumal MuruganFrom one of India’s best-known writers and the author of the National Book Award-longlisted One Part Woman comes a charming and surprising tale of…

Animalia
by Jean-Baptiste Del AmoA prizewinning and word-of-mouth literary sensation in France, Animalia is an extraordinary epic that retraces the history of a modest French peasant family over…

Shuggie Bain
by Douglas StuartA stunning debut novel by a masterful writer telling the heartwrenching story of a young boy and his alcoholic mother, whose love is only…

Correspondents
by Tim Murphy“Murphy artfully connects multiple narratives to produce a sprawling tale of love, family, duty, war, and displacement. It is above all a stinging indictment…

One Part Woman
by Perumal MuruganThe American debut of a world-class writer, already profiled by the New York Times, One Part Woman is a charming and touching story of…

The World Beneath
by Cate Kennedy“Written in precise and singing prose, [Kennedy’s] powerful first novel . . . [is] a work of mythic depth, lyrical description, and gripping suspense.”…