Books like The Chicken Sisters
In tiny Merinac, Kansas, two restaurants, Chicken Mimi's and Chicken Frannie's, have feuded for three generations, and when one sister signs them up for a reality television cook-off, the other comes home to fight.
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Family Lore
Flor Marte, who has always known when people are about to die, announces that she wants a living wake, and over the three days before it her sisters and their daughters gather in New York and wonder what she has foreseen.
The Most Fun We Ever Had
Marilyn and David Sorenson, still in love after forty years in their house outside Chicago, have four daughters who keep falling short of their parents' marriage, and in 2016 a teenage boy one of them gave up for adoption comes into their lives.
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.
Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder
Hannah Swensen, who runs The Cookie Jar bakery in Lake Eden, Minnesota, finds the town's well-liked dairy delivery man shot behind her shop, with her cookies scattered beside him, and starts asking questions.
Deadeye Dick
At twelve, Rudy Waltz fires a rifle from the cupola of his father's house in Midland City, Ohio, and kills a pregnant woman eight blocks away. He spends the rest of his life, and a fair number of recipes, trying to live it down.
The Gentleman from Indiana
John Harkless, an Eastern college man who bought the failing newspaper of Plattville, a small town in Indiana, has spent years there alone when a summer begins to change the town around him.
Hello Beautiful
William Waters, who grew up in a house silent with grief, finds a home with Julia Padavano and her three sisters in Chicago, but when an old darkness returns, it splits the family apart for years.
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.
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.
Buckeye
In the small town of Bonhomie, Ohio, on the day Germany surrenders in 1945, Margaret Salt, whose husband is away in the Navy, impulsively kisses Cal Jenkins in the hardware store, and that kiss shapes two families for decades.
The Bastard of Istanbul
Armanoush, an Armenian-American girl from Arizona, secretly visits her stepfather's family in Istanbul, a houseful of women, and befriends Asya, the illegitimate daughter of the youngest aunt.
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.