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A girl discovers her brilliant, reclusive father has been hiding a devastating secret, and the revelation reframes her entire childhood.
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The Echo Maker
After a truck crash on a Nebraska road, a young man wakes believing his sister is an impostor, and a famous neurologist arrives as sandhill cranes gather on the Platte River.
Funny Boy
Arjie, a Tamil boy growing up in Colombo in the 1970s and 80s, discovers he is gay as the tensions that will become Sri Lanka's civil war tighten around his family.
The Gold Bug Variations
In 1957 a young geneticist tries to crack the genetic code, and in the 1980s a librarian and an art historian piece together his story, in a novel built on Bach's Goldberg Variations.
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.
Lessons
Roland Baines's whole life, from a boarding school where a piano teacher abuses him to decades of love, loss and compromise across Cold War Europe, in McEwan's most autobiographical novel.
Go Tell It on the Mountain
On his fourteenth birthday in 1930s Harlem, John Grimes struggles with his stern preacher father, the church and his own desires, while the prayers of his family reveal the histories that shaped them.
Brown Girl, Brownstones
Selina Boyce, the daughter of Barbadian immigrants in a Brooklyn brownstone during the Depression and the war, grows up caught between her dreaming father and her mother, who is set on buying the house whatever it costs.
The Round House
A thirteen-year-old boy on an Ojibwe reservation seeks justice after his mother is brutally attacked, navigating a legal system designed to fail Native people.
Whistler
At the Metropolitan Museum of Art, fifty-three-year-old Daphne Fuller's husband thinks they are being followed, and the man turns out to be Eddie Triplett, her former stepfather, whom she has not seen in almost forty-five years; their reunion takes her back to the year she was nine.
Purple Hibiscus
Kambili, fifteen, lives a silent, ordered life in Enugu under her father, a rich, devout and violent man, until she and her brother go to stay with their aunt in Nsukka.
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.
Culpability
When the family minivan, driving itself with seventeen-year-old Charlie behind the wheel, crashes during a trip, the Cassidy-Shaws have to decide who is to blame, while the mother, an expert on the ethics of artificial intelligence, keeps secrets of her own.