Books like 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.
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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.
We Were the Mulvaneys
Judd, the youngest of the Mulvaneys, tells the story of his charmed family on High Point Farm in upstate New York, and of what became of them after a Valentine's Day dance in 1976.
The Last Romantics
In 2079 the celebrated poet Fiona Skinner, now very old, tells an audience the true story behind her most famous poem, which begins with the Pause, the years after her father's death when her mother took to her bed and four children raised themselves.
Blue Sisters
A year after their sister Nicky's death, the three remaining Blue sisters, a lawyer in London, a boxer in Los Angeles and a model in Paris, come back to New York to stop their parents selling the family apartment.
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.
And the Mountains Echoed
In 1952 a poor Afghan labourer carries his young son Abdullah and daughter Pari across the desert to Kabul, where the family is split apart, and the novel follows what came of it across sixty years, from Kabul to Paris, the Greek island of Tinos and California.
I Know This Much Is True
A Connecticut house painter whose paranoid-schizophrenic twin brother has cut off his own hand in a public library spends the next four hundred pages trying to take care of them both.
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.
Charming Billy
In a Bronx bar after the funeral of Billy Lynch, an Irish-American alcoholic, his family and friends trade stories about his life and the lost love that shaped it.
Malibu Rising
Malibu, August 1983: surfer and model Nina Riva throws her annual end-of-summer party, and as the night spins out of control, the four children of the famous singer Mick Riva confront what their father left behind.
We the Animals
Three brothers run wild in upstate New York, sons of a Puerto Rican father and a white mother from Brooklyn whose love for each other is as volatile as it is fierce.
The Bee Sting
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.