Literary Fiction Family

A stunning collection of stories exploring love and art, luck and loss, from the “invaluable” (George Saunders) author of How to Behave in a Crowd and The Material “These stories don’t close so much as continue inside you. They tilt the world and don’t set it back, leaving you to live...

“A morally complex and life-affirming exploration of what it means to be alive, and of the enduring power of love to transform, reanimate, and redeem.” —Celeste Ng, New York Times-bestselling author of Our Missing Hearts Caleb was driving home for Christmas. Steven was pounding beers at a...

“Tender, immersive, and thrilling." —Gabrielle Zevin "One of the best novels I’ve ever read about friendship.” —Stephen King "I can't remember the last time I cared about fictional characters as desperately as I came to care about the beautiful, hilarious and courageous teenage...

The art historian Noah Glass, having just returned from a trip to Sicily, is discovered floating face down in the swimming pool at his Sydney apartment block. His adult children, Martin and Evie, must come to terms with the shock of their father’s death. But a sculpture has gone missing from a museum in Palermo, and Noah is a suspect. The police are investigating. None of it makes any sense. Martin sets off to Palermo in search of answers about his father’s activities, while Evie moves into Noah’s apartment, waiting to learn where her life might take her.

Saddled with student loans, medical debt, and the sudden news of her infertility after a major car accident, Shannon, an African American woman, follows her boyfriend to Morocco in search of relief. There, in the cobblestoned medina of Marrakech, she finds a toddler in a pink jacket whose face mirrors her own. With the help of her boyfriend and a bribed official, Shannon makes the fateful decision to adopt and raise the girl in Louisville, Kentucky. But the girl already has a mother.

Ein epochales Forscherinnenleben - und der Alltag einer Mutter von vier Kindern. Kopenhagen, 1948: Maries kleiner Sohn Peder ist noch ein Baby, der Gedanke, ihn für viele Monate zu verlassen, schmerzt. Aber Marie muss fort, sie wird auf einer strapaziösen Expedition Beweise suchen für ihre These, dass die Kontinente ursprünglich einmal zusammenhingen. Pangäa ist ihr Lebenszweck, von nichts und niemandem lässt sie sich einschränken. Sie ist Forscherin, verheiratet und hat vier Kinder.

Plötzlich wird für Sophia alles anders: Ihr Ex-Mann erwartet ein Kind mit seiner Neuen, und kurz darauf stirbt ihre Mutter. Es beginnt eine Zeit der unendlichen Einsamkeit - und Schlaflosigkeit. Tagsüber fühlt sich Sophia wie ein Zombie, nachts treibt sie sich auf Twitter herum. Bis sie sich traut, selbst etwas zu twittern: "Suche andere Schlaflose im Raum Hamburg". Gleich drei Frauen melden sich: Margarete, Klara und Katharina - alle sind schlaflos.

It's the turn of the millennium and, landing in London with nothing but her CD collection and demo tape, Orla Quinn moves into a squalid Kilburn house with her best mate and a band called Shiva. Orla wants to make music, but juggling two jobs and partying every night isn't helping. Back in Ireland her parents' marriage has crumbled, she's not speaking to her father, and her mother and sister are drinking too much.

A debut family novel about four sisters growing up on the campus of the underfunded state mental hospital where their strong-willed mother serves as head of psychiatry. A richly moving story of sisterhood, loyalty, and mental health in America. The Cross sisters have lived their entire lives on...

Russ Hildebrandt, pastor en una iglesia progresista de un barrio residencial, está a punto de liberarse de un matrimonio que considera desdichado, salvo que su esposa, Marion, que también tiene sus secretos, se le anticipe.

In this immersive novel, Zuravleff weaves Russian fairy tales and fables into a family saga within the storied American landscape. The challenges facing immigrants-and the fragility of citizenship-are just as unsettling and surprising today as they were 100 years ago.

Introducing the Wu family: father Nan, mother Pingping, and son Taotao. We meet them as they arrange to fully sever ties with China in the aftermath of the 1989 massacre at Tiananmen Square, and to begin a new, free life in the United States.

Queenie is only 14 and has been deserted by her mother. Set in Liverpool and Wales at the outbreak of World War II, this story explores themes of female friendship and betrayal from the perspective of a group of women of widely different ages.

Dottie Badoura Fatma Balfour finds solace amidst the squalor of her childhood by spinning warm tales of affection about her beautiful names. But she knows nothing of their origins, and little of her family history—or the abuse her ancestors suffered as they made their home in Britain. At seventeen, she takes on the burden of responsibility for her brother and sister and is obsessed with keeping the family together. However, as Sophie, lumpen yet voluptuous, drifts away, and the confused Hudson is absorbed into the world of crime, Dottie is forced to consider her own needs.

In cima a una collina che guarda l'Etna da un lato e il mare dall'altro, sorge una masseria circondata da uno spicchio di paradiso: terrazzamenti carichi di ulivi, fichi e pruni, orti traboccanti di erbe e prati fioriti a perdita d'occhio. Questa tenuta magnifica è frutto del sudore e della tenacia di Luisa Russo, che si è intestardita a trasformare le "quattro pietre perse" che le ha regalato suo marito in un castello. Anzi, in una "castidda", perché quella terra è femmina, su questo Luisa non ha dubbi.

Virginia and Joe Thorndike have been married for 22 years, and now she's in love with a surgeon 13 years her junior. She leaves her husband and flies to Miami to start living with Rich Villamano, but there he tells her he has changed his mind and they must go their own ways. She takes off in his car, heading north with no luggage, no hope, no destination. She buys a bottle of gin and drinks it straight. Afraid that she’ll kill herself or someone else on the road, she abandons the car, flies to New York and takes an airport hotel room. She has no home and nowhere to go.

"Dieses Haus, aus Papier gebaut, ist zu etwas Festem geworden, das der Zeit standhält. Dieses Haus, dieser Ort: alle meine Geheimnisse sind hier." Der amerikanische Nr. 1-Bestseller endlich in deutscher Übersetzung. Elle Bishop, Anfang 50, glücklich verheiratet, drei Kinder, urlaubt im Sommerhaus der Familie, das alle scherzhaft den Papierpalast nennen. Elle schwimmt ihre morgendliche Runde im See und denkt nach über das, was am Abend zuvor geschehen ist.

Die unauflöslichen Fäden, die unsere Familie um uns spinnt. Anne Tyler erzählt die Geschichte der Familie Garrett von den 1950er Jahren bis heute. Sie schildert meisterhaft, wie wir alle die subtilen Äußerungen von Liebe, Enttäuschung, Stolz und Ablehnung von denen, die uns so nahe sind, verinnerlichen und wie das Handeln eines Familienmitglieds über Generationen hinweg Auswirkungen haben kann.

"Bella y oscura" narra la infancia vivida y soñada de una niña que viaja desde la soledad del orfanato hasta el marginal Barrio, donde la acoge una singular familia: doña Bárbara, su abuela, mujer de poderosa presencia; Amanda, su tía, sometida a Segundo, un marido pendenciero; Chico, su primo, taciturno observador de la actividad del Barrio; Airelai "la katami", la diosa-niña, la enana que conserva intacta la imaginación y la magia; y, finalmente, Máximo, el esperado padre, admirado por todos.

Beneath a façade of palm trees and sunshine, homelessness and addiction are bubbling to the surface. It can be hard to shake the brands others place on you; Derek, currently homeless, knows this better than most. Meanwhile, 17-year-old Melissa has a new boyfriend. Her best friend hates his guts but won't say why. Melissa and Jess find themselves drawn into a battle for reconciliation between their friends. With their help, painful truths from the past stand a chance of release, and a family receives the gift of restoration.