Books like Rabbit Redux
In 1969, as men land on the Moon, Rabbit's wife leaves him, and he takes in a runaway rich girl and a Black Vietnam veteran on the run.
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While I Was Gone
Jo Becker, a veterinarian in a small Massachusetts town married to a minister, is unsettled when Eli Mayhew, who shared a Cambridge house with her in the 1960s, turns up at her practice, bringing back the housemate who was murdered there.
Luster
Edie, a young Black woman in New York with a failing publishing job and a painting habit, starts seeing a white man in an open marriage and ends up living in his New Jersey house with his wife and their adopted daughter.
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 Witches of Eastwick
Three divorced women in a Rhode Island town discover their powers in the late 1960s and turn them to mischief, until a mysterious rich man buys the old mansion and seduces all three.
The Human Stain
A classics professor in late-1990s New England takes a young mistress and watches his carefully constructed life collapse under the weight of a secret he's kept for fifty years.
The Centaur
Over three winter days in 1947, George Caldwell, a schoolteacher in small-town Pennsylvania, and his fifteen-year-old son Peter are stranded by snow, and their lives are shadowed by the myth of Chiron the centaur.
Paco's Story
Paco Sullivan, the only survivor of a massacre of his company in Vietnam, gets off a bus in a small Texas town, scarred and limping, and takes a job washing dishes.
Freedom
A liberal Minnesota couple and the rock-musician friend who comes between them spend three decades disappointing each other in Bush-era America.
An American Marriage
Celestial and Roy are newlyweds in Atlanta with bright futures when Roy is sentenced to twelve years for a crime Celestial knows he did not commit, and as the years pass, she finds comfort in Andre, her childhood friend and their best man.
The Book of Daniel
Daniel Isaacson, the son of a couple executed for spying in the 1950s, struggles in the late 1960s with their memory, his sister's breakdown and his own anger, in Doctorow's novel based on the Rosenberg case.
On Chesil Beach
A young couple's honeymoon night on the Dorset coast goes catastrophically wrong, and the silence between them becomes the story of a generation.
Dominicana
In 1965 Ana Canción, fifteen, is married off by her family to Juan Ruiz, a man twice her age, and taken from the Dominican countryside to an apartment in Washington Heights, so that the rest of them can follow.