Books like 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.
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The Last Story of Mina Lee
When her mother stops answering the phone, Margot Lee, twenty-six, goes home to Koreatown in Los Angeles and finds her dead, and as she tries to find out what happened, the story of Mina's arrival in 1987 is told alongside hers.
What's Mine and Yours
When a North Carolina county brings Black and Latino students from the east side into a mostly white high school, two families, Gee's and Noelle's, are bound together for the next twenty years.
The Many Daughters of Afong Moy
In 2045 Dorothy Moy, a Seattle poet afraid of passing her depression to her daughter, tries a treatment that lets her relive the memories of her ancestors, back to Afong Moy, the first Chinese woman to come to America, in 1834.
Everything Inside
Eight stories of Haitians in Miami, in Port-au-Prince and on an unnamed island, among them a woman visiting a dying friend, a man on the edge of a roof and a love triangle that reaches across the sea.
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.
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.
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.
Black Cake
Byron and Benny Bennett, estranged siblings, come home to California after their mother's death to find she has left them a long voice recording, the story of her life in the Caribbean, and a black cake in the freezer.
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.
Banyan Moon
After her grandmother Minh dies, Ann Tran comes home to the crumbling Banyan House on the Florida Gulf Coast, where she and her estranged mother, Huong, have to live together again and face the family's secrets.
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.
The Deep End of the Ocean
Beth Cappadora takes her three children to her high school reunion in a Chicago hotel, turns her back for a moment in the crowded lobby, and her three-year-old son, Ben, is gone.