Books like Drowning Ruth
In 1919 Amanda Starkey leaves her nursing job in Milwaukee for the family farm on a Wisconsin lake, and after her sister drowns there one winter night, she raises her niece, Ruth, under a cloud of secrets.
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A Thousand Acres
A modern retelling of King Lear set on an Iowa farm, where a father's decision to divide his land among three daughters unleashes buried secrets and destruction.
Fall on Your Knees
On Cape Breton Island at the turn of the twentieth century, James Piper, a piano tuner, elopes with Materia, the young daughter of a Lebanese merchant, and they raise four daughters, the eldest of them, Kathleen, a gifted singer.
My Cousin Rachel
A young Englishman becomes obsessed with his beautiful cousin Rachel, unable to determine whether she's an innocent widow or the woman who murdered his guardian.
The Echo Maker
After a truck crash on a Nebraska road, a young man wakes believing his sister is an impostor, and a famous neurologist arrives as sandhill cranes gather on the Platte River.
A Map of the World
Alice Goodwin, a school nurse who lives with her husband and daughters on a dairy farm in rural Wisconsin, is minding her best friend's two little girls when one of them wanders down to the pond.
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
Edgar Sawtelle, born unable to speak, grows up on a farm in northern Wisconsin where his family breeds and trains a line of uncommonly gifted dogs, until his father's brother, Claude, comes home.
One of Ours
Claude Wheeler, a restless Nebraska farm boy who feels he was meant for something larger, finds it when America enters the First World War.
Did You Hear About Kitty Karr?
When Kitty Karr, a white star of Hollywood's golden age, dies, she leaves her fortune to the St. John sisters, three wealthy young Black women in Los Angeles, and Elise, a celebrity in her own right, is left to settle Kitty's affairs and the questions that follow.
Searching for Sylvie Lee
Sylvie Lee flies from New York to the Netherlands to see her dying grandmother, who raised her, and vanishes. Her younger sister Amy, who has never travelled, goes after her.
The Waters
On an island in a Michigan swamp lives Hermine Zook, an old herbalist the town calls Herself, who cures men's ailments, and the lives of her three daughters and her small granddaughter, Dorothy, play out in the town across the water.
Dark Places
Libby Day was seven when her mother and two sisters were murdered on their Kansas farm and her testimony sent her brother Ben to prison, and twenty-five years later, broke, she agrees to revisit the case for a club of true-crime obsessives.
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.