Books like Gap Creek
Julie Harmon, seventeen and used to doing a man's work on her family's farm, marries Hank Richards in the 1890s and moves with him to a house on Gap Creek, across the state line in South Carolina.
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Cane River
Drawn from the author's own family, the lives of four generations of women of colour along the Cane River in Louisiana, from Elisabeth, born into slavery, to her great-granddaughter Emily, across a century.
Salvage the Bones
A pregnant fifteen-year-old in rural Mississippi weathers Hurricane Katrina with her brothers, her fighting dogs, and a ferocity that refuses to break.
The Emigrants
In 1850 a group of poor Swedish farmers and outcasts from Småland sell what they own and cross the Atlantic towards the promise of Minnesota land.
The Four Winds
In 1934, as drought and dust storms ruin the Texas Panhandle farm she has worked for years, Elsa Martinelli must choose between staying with the land and taking her two children west to California, where the promise of work is not what it seems.
The Long Valley
Stories of the Salinas Valley, among them The Chrysanthemums, The Snake and Flight, and the four parts of The Red Pony.
Cold Mountain
A Confederate deserter and a preacher's daughter converge on a North Carolina mountain at the end of the Civil War, each carrying wounds the other might heal.
Night Watch
In 1874, twelve-year-old ConaLee and her mother, who has stopped speaking after years of abuse, are brought to the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in West Virginia by the violent man ConaLee has been made to call Papa, while the fate of her real father, a Union sharpshooter, remains a mystery.
The Giver of Stars
Alice Wright marries a handsome American to escape her stifling life in England, and in Baileyville, Kentucky, in 1937, she joins the Packhorse Library, riding into the Appalachian mountains with books under the lead of the fiercely independent Margery O'Hare.
March
The absent father from Little Women goes to war as a Union chaplain, and his idealism about abolition meets the reality of slaughter and of the plantations run by the North.
After the Divorce
When Costantino is sentenced to prison for a murder he didn't commit, his wife Giovanna, under a new law allowing divorce, takes a richer husband in their Sardinian village.
Ethan Frome
A visiting engineer pieces together the story of Ethan Frome, a farmer in a bleak Massachusetts village, his sickly, suspicious wife and her young cousin who came to help keep house.
Dragon Seed
Ling Tan, a farmer in a village outside Nanking, and his family see the Japanese army arrive in 1937 and have to decide how to live, and resist, under occupation.