Books like A Crime in the Neighborhood
In the summer of 1972, in a Washington suburb, ten-year-old Marsha's father leaves her mother for her aunt, and a boy is murdered behind the local mall.
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The Little Friend
Twelve years after her brother was found hanged in the family yard, a fierce twelve-year-old in 1970s Mississippi decides she knows who killed him and sets out for revenge.
In the Country of Men
In Tripoli in 1979, nine-year-old Suleiman watches his dissident father vanish into Qaddafi's purges, and his mother drink to forget.
The Lovely Bones
A fourteen-year-old girl murdered in a Pennsylvania cornfield narrates, from an in-between heaven, the decade her family spends coming apart around her empty place.
The Plot Against America
An alternate history where Charles Lindbergh defeats FDR in 1940 and steers America towards fascism, told through a Jewish family in Newark watching their country betray them.
Dance of the Happy Shades
Munro's first collection, fifteen stories of childhood and young womanhood in the towns of southwestern Ontario.
World's Fair
A boy grows up in 1930s Bronx, and the World's Fair becomes the lens through which he sees his family, his neighbourhood, and the promise of American modernity.
Chronicle in Stone
A boy grows up in Gjirokastër, a city of stone in southern Albania, during the Second World War, as Italians, Greeks and Germans take turns occupying it.
We Were the Mulvaneys
Judd, the youngest of the Mulvaneys, tells the story of his charmed family on High Point Farm in upstate New York, and of what became of them after a Valentine's Day dance in 1976.
We Need New Names
Darling, ten, roams a Zimbabwean shantytown called Paradise with her friends, stealing guavas, until she goes to live with her aunt in Michigan.
The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick
Josef Bloch, a construction fitter and former goalkeeper, takes a remark at work as his dismissal, drifts around Vienna, kills a cinema cashier and takes a bus to a village near the border.
Cracking India
Lenny, a Parsee girl lamed by polio, watches from her family's house in Lahore as Partition in 1947 turns her ayah's circle of admirers against each other.
Everything I Never Told You
Lydia is dead. So begins the story of the Lees, a Chinese American family in 1970s small-town Ohio, whose favourite daughter is found in the local lake, and whose parents, brother and younger sister were never as close as they seemed.