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When a North Carolina county brings Black and Latino students from the east side into a mostly white high school, two families, Gee's and Noelle's, are bound together for the next twenty years.
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Memphis
In 1995 Joan, ten, flees with her mother and younger sister to her mother's family home in Memphis, where three generations of women have lived and survived.
Banyan Moon
After her grandmother Minh dies, Ann Tran comes home to the crumbling Banyan House on the Florida Gulf Coast, where she and her estranged mother, Huong, have to live together again and face the family's secrets.
Did You Hear About Kitty Karr?
When Kitty Karr, a white star of Hollywood's golden age, dies, she leaves her fortune to the St. John sisters, three wealthy young Black women in Los Angeles, and Elise, a celebrity in her own right, is left to settle Kitty's affairs and the questions that follow.
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.
The Twelve Tribes of Hattie
In 1923 Hattie Shepherd, fifteen, flees Georgia for Philadelphia with her mother and sisters. She marries young, and over the following decades raises nine children, each of whom gets a chapter of their own.
Of Women and Salt
In Miami in 2018 Jeanette, newly sober, goes to Cuba to learn about her family from her grandmother, and the story reaches back to her great-great-grandmother in a Camagüey cigar factory in 1866.
Cane River
Drawn from the author's own family, the lives of four generations of women of colour along the Cane River in Louisiana, from Elisabeth, born into slavery, to her great-granddaughter Emily, across a century.
The Last Romantics
In 2079 the celebrated poet Fiona Skinner, now very old, tells an audience the true story behind her most famous poem, which begins with the Pause, the years after her father's death when her mother took to her bed and four children raised themselves.
Fifty Words for Rain
In Kyoto in 1948, Nori, eight, the daughter of a Japanese aristocrat and a Black American soldier, is left by her mother at her grandmother's estate, where she is kept hidden in the attic.
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.
The Many Daughters of Afong Moy
In 2045 Dorothy Moy, a Seattle poet afraid of passing her depression to her daughter, tries a treatment that lets her relive the memories of her ancestors, back to Afong Moy, the first Chinese woman to come to America, in 1834.
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.