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On an island in a Michigan swamp lives Hermine Zook, an old herbalist the town calls Herself, who cures men's ailments, and the lives of her three daughters and her small granddaughter, Dorothy, play out in the town across the water.
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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.
Tracks
In North Dakota between 1912 and 1924, as sickness and the loss of land pull the Ojibwe apart, Nanapush, an old man, and Pauline, a young woman of mixed blood, tell the story of Fleur Pillager, whom the lake spirit is said to protect.
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.
The Whale Rider
In a Māori community on the east coast of New Zealand, Kahu, great-granddaughter of the chief, wants to lead, but he wants only a boy, and whales are stranding on the beach.
Primeval and Other Times
The village of Primeval, guarded at its four borders by archangels, lives through the twentieth century, from the First World War into the 1980s, as its people and its spirits keep their own time.
The Tiger's Wife
Natalia, a young doctor in an unnamed Balkan country after the wars, learns that her grandfather has died far from home, and goes back over the stories he told her of the tiger's wife and the deathless man.
Song of Solomon
Milkman Dead, the son of the richest Black family in a Michigan town, travels south in search of hidden gold and finds instead the story of his family and of an ancestor who could fly.
Little Fires Everywhere
In the planned suburb of Shaker Heights, Ohio, in 1997, the orderly Richardson family rents a house to Mia Warren, an itinerant artist, and her teenage daughter Pearl, and a custody fight over a Chinese American baby divides the town and the two families.
Everything I Never Told You
Lydia is dead. So begins the story of the Lees, a Chinese American family in 1970s small-town Ohio, whose favourite daughter is found in the local lake, and whose parents, brother and younger sister were never as close as they seemed.
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 Antidote
In a Nebraska wheat town during the 1935 dust storms, a prairie witch who takes in her neighbours' secrets and memories loses all of them in a single black blizzard, and her fate tangles with a debt-ridden farmer, his orphaned niece and a New Deal photographer.
Drowning Ruth
In 1919 Amanda Starkey leaves her nursing job in Milwaukee for the family farm on a Wisconsin lake, and after her sister drowns there one winter night, she raises her niece, Ruth, under a cloud of secrets.