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The Original Daughter : A Novel. by Wei, Jemimah.;
In this debut novel, Stegner Fellow Jemimah Wei explores the formation and dissolution of family bonds in a story of ambition and sisterhood in turn-of-the-millennium Singapore. #diversity.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: FICTION / Family Life / General; FICTION / Literary; FICTION / Women;
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Every Precious and Fragile Thing : A Novel. by Davis, Barbara.;
In 'Every Precious and Fragile Thing', a mother and daughter try desperately to reconcile just as a decades-old secret threatens to shatter their relationship forever. From the author of 'The Echo of Old Books'.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: FICTION / Family Life / General; FICTION / Literary; FICTION / Women;
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More or Less Maddy : A Novel. by Genova, Lisa.;
Bestselling author and Harvard-trained neuroscientist Lisa Genova returns with a heartbreaking novel about a young woman diagnosed with bipolar disorder, the ripple effects her mental health has on her family, and her pursuit of a career in stand-up comedy.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: FICTION / Family Life / General; FICTION / Medical; FICTION / Women;
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The Float Test : A Novel. by Strong, Lynn Steger.;
'The Float Test' is a family story fraught with secrets about kids and sex and jobs. The biggest secret of all though is the secret of what happened between Jude and Fred Kenner to create such a rift between the two once-close sisters. But over the course of a Florida summer, the Kenner siblings will revisit what it means to be a family. From the author of 'Flight'. Book Club.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: FICTION / Family Life / General; FICTION / Literary; FICTION / Women;
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The Correspondent : A Novel. by Evans, Virginia.;
In this charming debut novel, Sybil Van Antwerp spends most of her mornings writing letters - to her brother, to her best friend, to Joan Didion and Larry McMurtry to tell them what she thinks of their latest books. Because at 73, Sybil uses her letters to make sense of the world and her place in it. But when Sybil receives a letter from someone in her past, she is forced to examine one of the most painful periods of her life.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: FICTION / Epistolary; FICTION / Family Life / General; FICTION / Women;
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Rabbit Moon : A Novel. by Haigh, Jennifer.;
Four years after their bitter divorce, Claire and Aaron Litvak learn that their 22-year-old daughter Lindsey has been critically injured in an accident. At a Shanghai hospital they wait at her bedside, hoping for the best and preparing for the worst. As Claire and Aaron struggle to get their bearings in Shanghai, they face troubling questions about Lindseys life there, in which nothing is quite as it seems. Book Club. #diversity. A RADD Pick.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: FICTION / Family Life / General; FICTION / Feminist; FICTION / Literary;
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Little Crosses A Novel [electronic resource] : by Reeves, Sabrina.aut; cloudLibrary;
A daughter examines her complicated relationship with a charismatic, narcissistic mother who now lives with alcohol-related dementia. When Cassie Wolfe brings her mother, Nina, to the Albuquerque Presbyterian Hospital to be detoxed, the doctors ask her to write a profile of the patient. But how can she fit Nina into a Word document? The last two years have left Cassie stunned, unable to reconcile the shell of a woman lying in the hospital bed with the force of nature that was her mother. Cassie's memories of Nina span decades and landscapes, from a farmhouse in Massachusetts to the streets of New York and the mountains of New Mexico. Nina was a charismatic iconoclast—an architect and builder who could wield a circular saw as easily as discuss politics art. But as Cassie comes to realize, Nina's brilliant constructions were only possible when she walled off whole sides of herself. Hiding is not unique to Nina—Cassie knows AA is full of just such intelligent, hilarious, powerful women. And when her critical gaze turns to her own life and how she’s raising her two daughters, she sees her mother's influence everywhere. In the end, Nina's devastating descent threatens to pull the family under, and Cassie's constant action is propelled by grief until she realizes that all that remains is to let it go.General adult.
Subjects: Electronic books.; Literary; Contemporary Women; Family Life;
© 2024., House of Anansi Press Inc,
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Same As It Ever Was A Novel [electronic resource] : by Lombardo, Claire.aut; cloudLibrary;
The New York Times bestselling author of The Most Fun We Ever Had (“wonderfully immersive…deliciously absorbing”—NPR) returns with another brilliantly observed family drama in which the enduring, hard-won affection of a long marriage faces imminent derailment from events both past and present. “Witty and insightful...a powerful exploration of marriage, motherhood, and self.”–Bonnie Garmus, bestselling author of Lessons in Chemistry Same As It Ever Was showcases the consummate style, signature wit, and profound emotional intelligence that made The Most Fun We Ever Had one of the most beloved novels of the past decade. Featuring a memorably messy family and the multifaceted marriage at its heart, Lombardo’s debut was dubbed “the literary love child of Jonathan Franzen and Anne Tyler” (The Guardian) and hailed as “ambitious and brilliantly written” (Washington Post). In this remarkable follow-up—another elegant and tumultuous story in the tradition of Elizabeth Strout, Ann Patchett, and Celeste Ng—Lombardo introduces us to an unforgettable cast of characters, this time by way of her singularly complicated protagonist. Julia Ames, after a youth marked by upheaval and emotional turbulence, has found herself on the placid plateau of mid-life. But Julia has never navigated the world with the equanimity of her current privileged class. Having nearly derailed herself several times, making desperate bids for the kind of connection that always felt inaccessible to her, she finally feels, at age fifty seven, that she has a firm handle on things. She’s unprepared, though, for what comes next: a surprise announcement from her straight-arrow son, an impending separation from her spikey teenaged daughter, and a seductive resurgence of the past, all of which threaten to draw her back into the patterns that had previously kept her on a razor’s edge. Same As It Ever Was traverses the rocky terrain of real life, —exploring new avenues of maternal ambivalence, intergenerational friendship, and the happenstantial cause-and-effect that governs us all. Delving even deeper into the nature of relationships—how they grow, change, and sometimes end—Lombardo proves herself a true and definitive cartographer of the human heart and asserts herself among the finest novelists of her generation.
Subjects: Electronic books.; Literary; Family Life; Contemporary Women;
© 2024., Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group,
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What does it feel like? : a novel / by Kinsella, Sophie,author.;
"Eve is a successful novelist who wakes up one day in a hospital bed with no memory of how she got there. Her husband, never far from her side, explains that she has had an operation to remove the large, malignant tumor growing in her brain. As Eve learns to walk, talk, and write again -- and as she wrestles with her diagnosis, and how and when to explain it to her beloved children -- she begins to recall what's most important to her: long walks with her husband's hand clasped firmly around her own, family game nights, and always buying that dress when she sees it. Recounted in brief anecdotes, each one is an attempt to answer the type of impossible questions recognizable to anyone navigating the labyrinth of grief. This short, extraordinary novel is a celebration of life, shot through with warmth and humor -- it will both break your heart and put it back together again"--
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Novels.; Amnesia; Memory; Grief; Family life; Women;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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Albertine's got talent! / by Power, Shena.; Valentine, Madeline.;
Dad is a prize-winning gardener, Mom can speedily sew complicated outfits, and brother Sam is an expert at soccer, but Albertine needs help uncovering her hidden talents.LSC
Subjects: Ability; Families; Family life;
© 2010., Henry Holt,
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