Books like The Road Home
Lev, a widower from a village in Eastern Europe, comes to London to earn money for his mother and small daughter, and finds work washing dishes in a fashionable restaurant.
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Sankofa
Anna Bain, a mixed-race woman in London whose marriage has ended and whose mother has just died, finds her mother's old diary and learns that her father was a West African student who went on to rule his country.
Maame
Maddie Wright, twenty-five, works a job she hates in London and looks after her father, who has Parkinson's, while her mother spends most of the year in Ghana, until a chance to move out gives her a life of her own.
Small Island
In 1948 Hortense, newly married, arrives in London from Jamaica to join her husband Gilbert, and they take a room in the house of Queenie, an Englishwoman whose own husband hasn't come back from the war.
Last Orders
Four men from Bermondsey drive to Margate to scatter the ashes of their friend Jack, a butcher, as his last wish.
Americanah
Ifemelu and Obinze fall in love as teenagers in Lagos; Ifemelu leaves to study in America and discovers race, while Obinze, shut out of the US after 9/11, ends up undocumented in London.
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.
Gravel Heart
Salim grows up in Zanzibar in the 1970s, puzzled that his father has moved out of the family home, and is sent to study in London, where he lives with his uncle.
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.
Western Lane
After her mother's death, eleven-year-old Gopi, the youngest of three sisters in a British Indian family, is set to train at squash by her grieving father, and the hours on court become the way she and her family carry their loss.
Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows
Nikki, a law-school dropout in London, takes a job teaching creative writing at the Sikh community centre in Southall, and finds that the widows who sign up want to write erotica.
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.