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Jane Flanagan, a Harvard archivist whose life is coming apart, goes home to the Maine coast and finds the abandoned Victorian house on the cliffs she loved as a girl now owned by a newcomer, who asks her to research its history.
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The Haunting of Velkwood
Talitha Velkwood was one of three girls who got out when an anomaly swallowed her suburban street in the 1980s, leaving everyone else there as ghosts. Decades later a researcher persuades her to go back in.
Bag of Bones
Four years after his wife's sudden death, the bestselling novelist Mike Noonan, unable to write, goes to their lake house in western Maine, where he is drawn into a young widow's fight to keep her daughter from the child's wealthy grandfather.
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 Good House
Two years after her teenage son died at her late grandmother's house in Sacajawea, Washington, Angela Toussaint goes back to it, and learns why the women in her family were once feared there.
Dreaming in Cuban
Three generations of women of the del Pino family, a grandmother loyal to Castro in Cuba and her daughters and granddaughter in Brooklyn and Havana, are divided by politics and the sea.
The Night Watchman
A Turtle Mountain Chippewa night watchman fights to protect his community's rights against a 1950s congressional effort to terminate tribal sovereignty.
Love Medicine
The Kashpaws and the Lamartines, two Ojibwe families on a North Dakota reservation, from the 1930s to the 1980s, told in many voices.
Burnt Shadows
Hiroko Tanaka survives the atomic bomb at Nagasaki in 1945, and her life, and her family's, carries her on to Delhi, Karachi and New York.
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.
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.
Of Women and Salt
In Miami in 2018 Jeanette, newly sober, goes to Cuba to learn about her family from her grandmother, and the story reaches back to her great-great-grandmother in a Camagüey cigar factory in 1866.
Breath, Eyes, Memory
Sophie Caco, raised by her aunt in a Haitian village, is sent at twelve to join the mother she barely knows in New York.