Books like We Need to Talk About Kevin
Two years after her teenage son murdered seven students, a teacher, and a cafeteria worker, Eva writes letters to her estranged husband trying to answer whether she ever loved the child she gave birth to.
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Little Children
In a Boston suburb, Sarah, an unhappy stay-at-home mother, and Todd, the handsome stay-at-home father the playground mothers call the Prom King, start an affair, while the town panics over a sex offender who has moved back in with his mother.
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.
American Pastoral
A successful Jewish-American glove manufacturer watches his family and his country unravel in the aftermath of the 1960s counterculture.
The Slap
At a suburban barbecue in Melbourne a man slaps a badly behaved child who isn't his, and eight people who were there tell what happened next.
My Brilliant Friend
A shoemaker's brilliant daughter in postwar Naples forms an intense friendship that spans sixty years, surviving poverty, violence, ambition, and the changing face of Italy.
The Book of Ruth
Ruth, a plain and overlooked girl in a small Illinois town, grows up under a bitter mother who favours her clever brother, and marries Ruby Dahl, a damaged young man, who comes to live with them.
A Crime in the Neighborhood
In the summer of 1972, in a Washington suburb, ten-year-old Marsha's father leaves her mother for her aunt, and a boy is murdered behind the local mall.
Black and Blue
After years of beatings from her husband, a New York City policeman, Fran Benedetto, a nurse, takes their young son and disappears to Florida under a new name.
Heaven
Two 14-year-olds in a Tokyo school, both targets of relentless bullying, find each other and argue about whether suffering has meaning.
Requiem for a Dream
Four New Yorkers, a widow taking diet pills so she can appear on a TV game show, her son, his girlfriend and his best friend, who start dealing heroin, slide into addiction in Selby's airless prose.
The Story of Zahra
Zahra, a young woman scarred by her childhood in Beirut, comes home from Africa as the civil war begins, and starts an affair with a sniper.
The Lovely Bones
A fourteen-year-old girl murdered in a Pennsylvania cornfield narrates, from an in-between heaven, the decade her family spends coming apart around her empty place.