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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.
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Sam
Sam grows up in Beverly, Massachusetts, with a struggling single mother and a charismatic, unreliable father, and finds the one thing she is sure of on climbing walls and rock faces.
The Optimist's Daughter
A woman returns to Mississippi after her father's death and has to contend with his young second wife and her own memories of home.
Clap When You Land
When their father dies in a plane crash on his way to the Dominican Republic, Camino Rios in Santo Domingo and Yahaira Rios in New York, half-sisters who never knew the other existed, each learn the secret he kept.
Interpreter of Maladies
Nine stories of Indian immigrants and their American-born children, caught between cultures and the quiet tragedies of misunderstanding.
How the García Girls Lost Their Accents
Four sisters from a well-off Dominican family, forced to flee to New York in 1960, grow up American, told backwards from adulthood to their island childhood.
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.
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.
Deep River
Four Japanese travellers with separate wounds arrive at Varanasi on a tourist itinerary, and Endo tracks what the Ganges does to each of their unlikely faiths.
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.
The Makioka Sisters
Four Osaka sisters of a declining merchant family try across the late 1930s to marry off the third, as the culture they came from is about to be burned off the map.
Telephone
A paleobiologist whose daughter is slowly losing her mind to a rare disease finds a plea for help sewn into a jacket he bought online and drives into the desert to answer it.
Iza's Ballad
After her father's death, a well-meaning Budapest doctor brings her widowed mother to live in her modern flat and slowly dissolves the old woman's place in the world.