Books like Black Cake
Byron and Benny Bennett, estranged siblings, come home to California after their mother's death to find she has left them a long voice recording, the story of her life in the Caribbean, and a black cake in the freezer.
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The Last Story of Mina Lee
When her mother stops answering the phone, Margot Lee, twenty-six, goes home to Koreatown in Los Angeles and finds her dead, and as she tries to find out what happened, the story of Mina's arrival in 1987 is told alongside hers.
Infinite Country
Talia, fifteen, escapes from a reform school in the Colombian mountains to make the flight to New York that will reunite her with the family she was separated from as a baby.
Everything Inside
Eight stories of Haitians in Miami, in Port-au-Prince and on an unnamed island, among them a woman visiting a dying friend, a man on the edge of a roof and a love triangle that reaches across the sea.
The Deep End of the Ocean
Beth Cappadora takes her three children to her high school reunion in a Chicago hotel, turns her back for a moment in the crowded lobby, and her three-year-old son, Ben, is gone.
The Bastard of Istanbul
Armanoush, an Armenian-American girl from Arizona, secretly visits her stepfather's family in Istanbul, a houseful of women, and befriends Asya, the illegitimate daughter of the youngest aunt.
How the García Girls Lost Their Accents
Four sisters from a well-off Dominican family, forced to flee to New York in 1960, grow up American, told backwards from adulthood to their island childhood.
A Woman Is No Man
In 1990 Isra, seventeen, is married off in Palestine and taken to live with her husband's family in Brooklyn. In 2008 her daughter Deya, eighteen and under pressure to marry, starts to learn the truth about her mother.
This Is How It Always Is
Rosie and Penn have four boisterous sons when their fifth, Claude, starts saying he wants to wear dresses and be a girl when he grows up, and the family moves across the country to give the child a fresh start.
Of Women and Salt
In Miami in 2018 Jeanette, newly sober, goes to Cuba to learn about her family from her grandmother, and the story reaches back to her great-great-grandmother in a Camagüey cigar factory in 1866.
And the Mountains Echoed
In 1952 a poor Afghan labourer carries his young son Abdullah and daughter Pari across the desert to Kabul, where the family is split apart, and the novel follows what came of it across sixty years, from Kabul to Paris, the Greek island of Tinos and California.
The Joy Luck Club
Four Chinese mothers and their four American daughters in San Francisco pass their stories across a bridge that the war and the immigration and the language will not let them entirely cross.
Brown Girl, Brownstones
Selina Boyce, the daughter of Barbadian immigrants in a Brooklyn brownstone during the Depression and the war, grows up caught between her dreaming father and her mother, who is set on buying the house whatever it costs.