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The Barnes family of a small Irish town is coming apart: the father's car dealership is failing after the 2008 crash, the mother watches the money and the marriage slip away, and their teenage daughter and young son each struggle in secret.
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The World According to Garp
T. S. Garp, the son of a famous feminist nurse who conceived him on her own terms, grows up at a New England boarding school, becomes a novelist and spends his life trying to protect his family from a violent world.
Troubles
In 1919, Major Brendan Archer, shaken by the war, arrives at a crumbling hotel on the Irish coast to see the fiancée he barely remembers, and watches the building, and the empire, fall apart around him.
A Fraction of the Whole
Jasper Dean tells the story of his father Martin, a brilliant, paranoid philosopher full of grand schemes, and his uncle Terry, Australia's most beloved criminal, in a sprawling comic family saga.
The Cactus
Susan Green, forty-five, likes her London life tidy and her feelings out of view, until she finds herself pregnant just as her mother dies and leaves the family house to her feckless younger brother.
The Corrections
A Midwestern family buckles under the weight of a domineering father, a depressed mother, and three adult children whose failures mirror America's at the millennium.
A House for Mr Biswas
Mohun Biswas, born in rural Trinidad with an extra finger and an unlucky horoscope, marries into the domineering Tulsi family and spends his life trying to own a house of his own.
Empire Falls
A struggling restaurant manager in a declining Maine mill town holds together his family, his friendships, and his sanity by a thread.
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.
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
Paddy Clarke, ten years old, runs wild with his gang on a new estate on the edge of Dublin in 1968, while at home his parents' marriage comes apart.
Too Much Lip
Kerry Salter, a Bundjalung woman on a stolen motorbike with warrants out, comes home to northern New South Wales to farewell her dying grandfather, and finds the mayor planning a prison on sacred land.
Crossroads
In 1971 suburban Chicago, associate pastor Russ Hildebrandt and his family each struggle with faith, desire and a youth group called Crossroads, as their lives pull apart over a single winter.
The Gathering
Veronica Hegarty, one of twelve surviving children, brings her brother Liam's body home from England after he drowns himself, and the family gathers in Dublin for the wake.