Books like Little Women
Four sisters grow up during the Civil War, navigating poverty, ambition, love, and loss, in the novel that defined American domestic fiction.
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The Makioka Sisters
Four Osaka sisters of a declining merchant family try across the late 1930s to marry off the third, as the culture they came from is about to be burned off the map.
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.
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.
Practical Magic
Raised by their witch aunts in a Massachusetts town that both fears and needs them, the Owens sisters grow up and leave, until one turns up on the other's doorstep with a dead man in her car.
Anne of Green Gables
An accidentally-adopted red-haired orphan talks, dreams, and misbehaves her way into the hearts of an ageing brother and sister on a Prince Edward Island farm.
Family Lore
Flor Marte, who has always known when people are about to die, announces that she wants a living wake, and over the three days before it her sisters and their daughters gather in New York and wonder what she has foreseen.
Winter Solstice
Elfrida Phipps, a retired actress, moves to a Hampshire village and ends up spending Christmas in a big house in the far north of Scotland with a group of strangers who each need a home.
The Chicken Sisters
In tiny Merinac, Kansas, two restaurants, Chicken Mimi's and Chicken Frannie's, have feuded for three generations, and when one sister signs them up for a reality television cook-off, the other comes home to fight.
The Witch of Blackbird Pond
In 1687 Kit Tyler leaves Barbados for her aunt's strict Puritan household in Connecticut, and her friendship with an old Quaker woman the town calls a witch puts her in danger.
The Green Road
Rosaleen Madigan, a difficult matriarch in County Clare, announces she is selling the family house, and her four grown children, scattered from New York to Mali, come home for one last Christmas.
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
An Irish-American girl grows up poor in early-twentieth-century Williamsburg on her mother's stubbornness and her doomed father's charm, and the Brooklyn she walks to school in is its own weather.
A Redbird Christmas
Oswald T. Campbell, told by his Chicago doctor that he won't survive another winter, moves to Lost River, a small town in Alabama, and meets a little girl and a redbird.