Books like Whistler
At the Metropolitan Museum of Art, fifty-three-year-old Daphne Fuller's husband thinks they are being followed, and the man turns out to be Eddie Triplett, her former stepfather, whom she has not seen in almost forty-five years; their reunion takes her back to the year she was nine.
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The Dutch House
A brother and sister are evicted from their family's Philadelphia mansion and spend decades haunted by the house and the stepmother who took it from them.
Charming Billy
In a Bronx bar after the funeral of Billy Lynch, an Irish-American alcoholic, his family and friends trade stories about his life and the lost love that shaped it.
Bluebeard
An ageing abstract expressionist tells the story of his life and his art, and the painting he won't let anyone see conceals the trauma he survived.
Clear Light of Day
Bim, who has stayed in the family's crumbling house in Old Delhi to look after her disabled brother, is visited by her sister Tara, and they remember the summer of Partition.
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.
The Sea
An ageing Irishman reflects on a childhood summer by the sea and the drowning that ended it, unable to separate memory from invention.
Heft
Arthur Opp, a former professor too heavy to leave his Brooklyn brownstone, gets a call from a former student he has loved from afar for decades, and her teenage son, a baseball talent in Yonkers, becomes the other half of the story.
The Catcher in the Rye
A teenager expelled from prep school wanders New York City for three days, raging against phoniness while revealing the grief he can't face.
Franny and Zooey
A college student in the middle of a spiritual breakdown retreats to her family's Manhattan apartment, and her actor brother tries to talk her back into the world.
Extinctions
Frederick Lothian, a retired engineer, has moved into a retirement village to be left alone, and his neighbour Jan refuses to let him.
An Artist of the Floating World
In the years after World War II, a once-celebrated Japanese painter tries to arrange his daughter's marriage while slowly facing the propaganda he made for the imperial cause.
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.