Books like Freedom
A liberal Minnesota couple and the rock-musician friend who comes between them spend three decades disappointing each other in Bush-era America.
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The Corrections
A Midwestern family buckles under the weight of a domineering father, a depressed mother, and three adult children whose failures mirror America's at the millennium.
Crossroads
In 1971 suburban Chicago, associate pastor Russ Hildebrandt and his family each struggle with faith, desire and a youth group called Crossroads, as their lives pull apart over a single winter.
May We Be Forgiven
Harry Silver, a Nixon scholar, sleeps with his brother's wife, and within weeks his brother George's life explodes, leaving Harry to look after his house, his children and his dog.
Little Fires Everywhere
In the planned suburb of Shaker Heights, Ohio, in 1997, the orderly Richardson family rents a house to Mia Warren, an itinerant artist, and her teenage daughter Pearl, and a custody fight over a Chinese American baby divides the town and the two families.
The Mighty Red
In the Red River Valley of North Dakota in 2008, as the financial crisis hits, Kismet Poe, sixteen, is pursued by Gary Geist, the son of a rich sugar beet farmer, and the lives of her mother and a dozen neighbours are pulled along with them.
The Nix
A satirical family epic spanning from the 1968 Chicago riots to the present, connecting a mother's secret past to her son's public disgrace.
American Pastoral
A successful Jewish-American glove manufacturer watches his family and his country unravel in the aftermath of the 1960s counterculture.
Wellness
Jack and Elizabeth met as young artists in 1990s Chicago, and twenty years later, married with a young son and buying a condo in the suburbs, they find their marriage and the theories they live by quietly cracking.
Breathing Lessons
On a single Saturday, Maggie and Ira Moran drive out of Baltimore to a funeral, and Maggie decides to bring their son back together with his ex-wife.
The Husband's Secret
Cecilia Fitzpatrick, a Sydney mother who runs her life with Tupperware precision, finds a letter in the attic addressed to her in her husband's handwriting, to be opened only in the event of his death, while he is still very much alive.
Rabbit, Run
Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom, a former high-school basketball star now selling kitchen gadgets in a Pennsylvania town, walks out on his pregnant wife and young son one evening and keeps driving.
The Stories of John Cheever
Sixty-one stories of the American suburbs and cities after the war, from The Enormous Radio to The Swimmer.