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Glory Boughton, thirty-eight, has come home to Gilead, Iowa, to care for her dying father, the old minister, when her brother Jack, the family's prodigal, comes back after twenty years.
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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.
The Optimist's Daughter
A woman returns to Mississippi after her father's death and has to contend with his young second wife and her own memories of home.
Everything I Never Told You
Lydia is dead. So begins the story of the Lees, a Chinese American family in 1970s small-town Ohio, whose favourite daughter is found in the local lake, and whose parents, brother and younger sister were never as close as they seemed.
Clear Light of Day
Bim, who has stayed in the family's crumbling house in Old Delhi to look after her disabled brother, is visited by her sister Tara, and they remember the summer of Partition.
To the Lighthouse
A family vacations at a Scottish lighthouse, and the passage of time between two visits reveals everything about love, art, loss, and the impossibility of reaching the things we yearn for.
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.
Go Set a Watchman
Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch comes home from New York to Maycomb, Alabama, in the mid-1950s for her annual visit and discovers that her father Atticus, and the town that raised her, are not what she believed.
Whistler
At the Metropolitan Museum of Art, fifty-three-year-old Daphne Fuller's husband thinks they are being followed, and the man turns out to be Eddie Triplett, her former stepfather, whom she has not seen in almost forty-five years; their reunion takes her back to the year she was nine.
The Other Name: Septology I-II
An ageing Norwegian painter reflects on his life, art, and faith in single unbroken sentences across seven books; the first two arrive here.
Purple Hibiscus
Kambili, fifteen, lives a silent, ordered life in Enugu under her father, a rich, devout and violent man, until she and her brother go to stay with their aunt in Nsukka.
Extinctions
Frederick Lothian, a retired engineer, has moved into a retirement village to be left alone, and his neighbour Jan refuses to let him.
Maps for Lost Lovers
In a Pakistani community in an English town, Shamas mourns his brother Jugnu and Jugnu's lover Chanda, who have disappeared, believed murdered by her brothers.