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Two Black women in a small Ohio town share a friendship so intense it borders on destruction, testing the limits of love, loyalty, and self-preservation.
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Love
Memories of a dead Black hotel magnate orbit the women who loved him, each holding a different version of what he was.
The Bluest Eye
A young Black girl in 1940s Ohio prays for blue eyes, and her wish exposes the way American beauty standards destroy the people they exclude.
Banal Nightmare
After a decade in the city with a domineering partner, Moddie moves back to her hometown and falls in with old friends now nearing middle age, until an artist arrives for a residency at the local university.
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter
Larry Ott has lived as an outcast in a small Mississippi town since a girl he took on a date vanished twenty-five years ago. When another girl goes missing, the town's constable is Silas Jones, the Black boy he was friends with as a child.
Passing
Irene Redfield, a doctor's wife in Harlem, runs into her childhood friend Clare Kendry in a Chicago hotel and learns that Clare has been passing as white, married to a white man who knows nothing of her past.
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.
Main Street
Carol Milford, a young, idealistic librarian from St Paul, marries a small-town doctor and moves to Gopher Prairie, Minnesota, determined to bring culture and reform to its one dusty Main Street.
Swing Time
Two mixed-race girls from a London housing estate who meet at a dance class take different paths, one a talented dancer, the other an assistant to a global pop star, in a novel about race, talent and envy.
Bridge of Sighs
Lou Lynch, sixty, who has spent his whole life in the upstate New York town of Thomaston running his family's corner stores, writes his life story as he and his wife plan a trip to Venice to see his boyhood friend Bobby Marconi, now a famous painter.
Filthy Animals
Interconnected stories about young people in the American Midwest grappling with desire, loneliness, and the impossible project of being known by another person.
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Janie Crawford comes back to her Florida town and tells her friend the story of her three marriages, from a loveless arranged match to a short, joyous, doomed love in the Everglades.
Home
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.