Books like Girl, Woman, Other
Twelve interlinked lives, mostly Black British women, a playwright, a teacher, a banker, a farmer and their families, told in a fluid, lightly punctuated prose that moves across a century.
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White Teeth
A Bangladeshi family, a Jamaican family, and a Jewish-Catholic couple collide in North London at the turn of the millennium, and their intersecting lives map multicultural Britain.
NW
Four Londoners' lives intersect in the northwest neighbourhood of Kilburn, spanning three decades of British class, race, and the stories we tell about our futures.
Another Country
After the suicide of Rufus Scott, a Black jazz drummer, his friends in late-1950s New York, Black and white, gay and straight, try to love one another across every line America draws.
The Counterfeiters
In Paris, schoolboy Bernard runs away after discovering he is illegitimate and becomes secretary to the novelist Édouard, who is writing a novel called The Counterfeiters about the very people around him.
Mrs Dalloway
On a June day in 1923, Clarissa Dalloway walks through London buying flowers for her party, while a shell-shocked veteran, Septimus Smith, moves towards his own crisis, and the novel maps their inner lives hour by hour.
The Waves
Six friends speak in turn from childhood to old age in soliloquies that read like prose poetry, while interludes trace the sun's course across a single day over the sea.
Grief Is the Thing with Feathers
Weeks after his wife's sudden death, a Ted Hughes scholar in a London flat is visited by Crow, who says he will stay with him and his two young sons until they no longer need him.
Americanah
Ifemelu and Obinze fall in love as teenagers in Lagos; Ifemelu leaves to study in America and discovers race, while Obinze, shut out of the US after 9/11, ends up undocumented in London.
The Hours
Three women in three eras live through a single day linked by Mrs Dalloway: Virginia Woolf writing it in 1923, Laura Brown reading it in 1949 Los Angeles, and Clarissa Vaughan, nicknamed Mrs Dalloway, giving a party in 1990s New York.
The Late Americans
Graduate students and gig workers in Iowa City orbit each other through workshops, slaughterhouses, and dating apps, searching for connection in a precarious economy.
Queenie
Queenie Jenkins, a twenty-five-year-old Jamaican British journalist in London, comes apart after her white boyfriend asks for a break, making one bad choice after another while her friends and family try to keep up.
Still Life
In the summer of 1944, among the ruins of Tuscany, Ulysses Temper, a young British soldier, meets Evelyn Skinner, an English art historian in her sixties who has come to rescue paintings, and the meeting shapes the next forty years of his life.