Books like The Celebrants
Five friends from college once promised to hold a funeral for one another while they were still alive to hear the eulogies, and nearly thirty years on, Jordan calls them to a house in Big Sur to use his.
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Last Orders
Four men from Bermondsey drive to Margate to scatter the ashes of their friend Jack, a butcher, as his last wish.
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
Evelyn Couch, an unhappy Birmingham housewife, befriends Ninny Threadgoode at a nursing home, and Ninny tells her the story of the Whistle Stop Cafe in 1930s Alabama and the two women who ran it, Idgie and Ruth.
Friends and Strangers
Elisabeth, a journalist and new mother who has just moved from Brooklyn to a small Hudson Valley town, hires Sam, a college senior, to babysit, and the two become friends across a divide neither of them sees clearly.
Tortilla Flat
In the hills above Monterey, Danny comes home from the war to inherit two houses, and his friends, a band of cheerful, unemployed paisanos, move in for a run of wine and petty schemes modelled on the adventures of King Arthur's knights.
All Adults Here
Astrid Strick, a widow in a small Hudson Valley town, sees an acquaintance killed by a school bus, and decides it is time to tell her grown children something she has kept from them.
Circle of Friends
Benny Hogan, the cherished only child of a village shopkeeper, and her orphaned friend Eve Malone leave Knockglen for University College Dublin in the late 1950s, where new friends, a handsome rugby player and a beautiful, calculating classmate change their lives.
Cannery Row
On a street of sardine canneries in Monterey, a marine biologist known as Doc, a band of good-natured bums led by Mack and the women of the local brothel share a block and a way of life, in Steinbeck's most affectionate book.
Tales of the City
Mary Ann Singleton, a secretary from Cleveland on holiday in San Francisco in 1976, decides to stay, and moves into 28 Barbary Lane, a boarding house run by Anna Madrigal, a landlady who tapes joints to her tenants' doors.
Tara Road
When her husband leaves her, Ria Lynch, who has always lived for her family and her house on Tara Road in Dublin, agrees to swap homes for the summer with Marilyn Vine, an American stranger mourning her son in Connecticut.
Mika in Real Life
Mika Suzuki, thirty-five and adrift in Portland, gets a phone call from Penny, the daughter she placed for adoption sixteen years ago, and in a panic tells her she has everything together.
This Is How It Always Is
Rosie and Penn have four boisterous sons when their fifth, Claude, starts saying he wants to wear dresses and be a girl when he grows up, and the family moves across the country to give the child a fresh start.
Remarkably Bright Creatures
Tova Sullivan, a widow who mops floors at a small Puget Sound aquarium at night, strikes up an unlikely friendship with Marcellus, a giant Pacific octopus who knows more about her past than she does.