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When her brilliant, agoraphobic mother, a once-celebrated architect, vanishes just before a family trip to Antarctica, fifteen-year-old Bee Branch assembles emails, memos and school notes to work out where she went.
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The Corrections
A Midwestern family buckles under the weight of a domineering father, a depressed mother, and three adult children whose failures mirror America's at the millennium.
Lost Lambs
The Flynns of a small coastal town are coming apart: the parents' open marriage is failing, and their three daughters each go off the rails, the youngest by investigating the shipping magnate who looms over the town.
Queenie
Queenie Jenkins, a twenty-five-year-old Jamaican British journalist in London, comes apart after her white boyfriend asks for a break, making one bad choice after another while her friends and family try to keep up.
Walk Two Moons
Thirteen-year-old Salamanca Tree Hiddle rides with her grandparents from Ohio to Idaho, retracing her mother's journey, and passes the time telling them the strange story of her friend Phoebe, whose mother has disappeared.
Weather
A Brooklyn university librarian takes a side job answering mail for a doom-laden climate podcast while trying to keep her family steady in a country sliding towards dread.
Bowlaway
At the turn of the twentieth century, a woman named Bertha Truitt is found unconscious in a Massachusetts cemetery with a bowling ball and fifteen pounds of gold, and goes on to found a candlepin alley that outlasts her.
Ella Minnow Pea
On the island of Nollop, which honours the man credited with "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog", the council bans each letter that falls from his statue, and the islanders' letters to one another lose them one by one.
Crazy Rich Asians
Rachel Chu, an economics professor in New York, agrees to spend the summer in Singapore with her boyfriend, Nick Young, for his best friend's wedding, without knowing that his family is one of the richest in Asia.
The Cactus
Susan Green, forty-five, likes her London life tidy and her feelings out of view, until she finds herself pregnant just as her mother dies and leaves the family house to her feckless younger brother.
A Fraction of the Whole
Jasper Dean tells the story of his father Martin, a brilliant, paranoid philosopher full of grand schemes, and his uncle Terry, Australia's most beloved criminal, in a sprawling comic family saga.
The Ponder Heart
Edna Earle Ponder, who runs the hotel in Clay, Mississippi, talks a stranger's ear off about her generous, childlike Uncle Daniel, his marriages and the trial that has the whole town watching.
Anxious People
A failed bank robber holds eight people hostage in a Swedish apartment viewing, and every single one of them has a secret.