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Malibu, August 1983: surfer and model Nina Riva throws her annual end-of-summer party, and as the night spins out of control, the four children of the famous singer Mick Riva confront what their father left behind.
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The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Reclusive Hollywood legend Evelyn Hugo chooses an unknown magazine writer to tell her life story, seven marriages, a hidden love and the machinery of fame, and the writer wonders why she was chosen.
Did You Hear About Kitty Karr?
When Kitty Karr, a white star of Hollywood's golden age, dies, she leaves her fortune to the St. John sisters, three wealthy young Black women in Los Angeles, and Elise, a celebrity in her own right, is left to settle Kitty's affairs and the questions that follow.
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.
Black Cake
Byron and Benny Bennett, estranged siblings, come home to California after their mother's death to find she has left them a long voice recording, the story of her life in the Caribbean, and a black cake in the freezer.
Lost Lambs
The Flynns of a small coastal town are coming apart: the parents' open marriage is failing, and their three daughters each go off the rails, the youngest by investigating the shipping magnate who looms over the town.
Carrie Soto Is Back
Carrie Soto retired from tennis with twenty Grand Slam titles and a reputation as the most ruthless woman in the game, and in 1994, at thirty-seven, she comes back to defend her record against a younger player, with her father as her coach again.
The Last Story of Mina Lee
When her mother stops answering the phone, Margot Lee, twenty-six, goes home to Koreatown in Los Angeles and finds her dead, and as she tries to find out what happened, the story of Mina's arrival in 1987 is told alongside hers.
Crazy Rich Asians
Rachel Chu, an economics professor in New York, agrees to spend the summer in Singapore with her boyfriend, Nick Young, for his best friend's wedding, without knowing that his family is one of the richest in Asia.
And the Mountains Echoed
In 1952 a poor Afghan labourer carries his young son Abdullah and daughter Pari across the desert to Kabul, where the family is split apart, and the novel follows what came of it across sixty years, from Kabul to Paris, the Greek island of Tinos and California.
The Last Romantics
In 2079 the celebrated poet Fiona Skinner, now very old, tells an audience the true story behind her most famous poem, which begins with the Pause, the years after her father's death when her mother took to her bed and four children raised themselves.
Memphis
In 1995 Joan, ten, flees with her mother and younger sister to her mother's family home in Memphis, where three generations of women have lived and survived.
The Prince of Tides
A Southern football coach goes to New York to help his suicidal twin sister's psychiatrist understand the family, and the family turns out to be much worse than either of them told.