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Two reclusive brothers, one blind, live in a Fifth Avenue mansion that slowly fills with newspapers, pianos and a Model T while the twentieth century rolls past outside, inspired by the real Collyer brothers.
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The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
Two Cuban brothers, Cesar and Nestor Castillo, come to New York in 1949 to play mambo, and their brush with fame on I Love Lucy echoes through Cesar's memories decades later.
Parakeet
The week before her wedding, a woman known as the Bride is visited by her dead grandmother in the form of a parakeet, who tells her to find the estranged brother she has not seen in years.
The First Bad Man
Cheryl Glickman, a fussy, solitary employee of a women's self-defence nonprofit in Los Angeles, agrees to let her bosses' sullen twenty-year-old daughter move in with her, and her ordered life comes apart.
The Dutch House
A brother and sister are evicted from their family's Philadelphia mansion and spend decades haunted by the house and the stepmother who took it from them.
World's Fair
A boy grows up in 1930s Bronx, and the World's Fair becomes the lens through which he sees his family, his neighbourhood, and the promise of American modernity.
A General Theory of Oblivion
Ludo, an agoraphobic Portuguese woman in Luanda, bricks herself into her apartment on the eve of Angolan independence in 1975 and lives there alone for nearly thirty years.
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.
How the García Girls Lost Their Accents
Four sisters from a well-off Dominican family, forced to flee to New York in 1960, grow up American, told backwards from adulthood to their island childhood.
Beautyland
Born in Philadelphia on the night in 1977 that Voyager 1 launched, Adina knows she is an alien sent to study the planet, and she spends her life faxing reports home while trying to pass as one of the humans.
I Know This Much Is True
A Connecticut house painter whose paranoid-schizophrenic twin brother has cut off his own hand in a public library spends the next four hundred pages trying to take care of them both.
Mao II
A reclusive novelist lets a photographer take his picture and is drawn out of hiding into a scheme to free a young poet held hostage in Beirut.
Bowlaway
At the turn of the twentieth century, a woman named Bertha Truitt is found unconscious in a Massachusetts cemetery with a bowling ball and fifteen pounds of gold, and goes on to found a candlepin alley that outlasts her.