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The story begins with a mother awaiting her teenage son's return home late one night. If you like books like this, you may want to check out these other Bossy books I've read that play with

You can click here for other historical fiction books I've reviewed on Bossy Bookworm. The two enchant each other within an unconventional, unacceptable relationship and a swirl of irresistible On the other side of the Shrines of Gaiety story line is Detective Frobisher, an upstanding outlier in O'Farrell turns her attention to Renaissance Italy to tell a historical fiction story of a precocious third daughter Her trusted nurse and former milk-mother Sofia does her best to delay plans to wed the slight young girl

Now Fern is trying to figure out how she ended up managing her mother's lakeside resort instead of living They're good young Muslim women...and they also know how to skirt the rules, cover for each other, and

begin to be systematically assassinated in public shows of retaliation for their past crimes, Emi's mother Kristina goes missing, and Emi fears that her mother is in danger. But when the shop owner, Clay Cooper, who owns several other local businesses, is a town council member and have better prospects than Opal herself has had since the loss and disappearance of their single mother

isn't maudlin or sappy despite the tragedy and yearning at the book's heart; Soulmate Equation, my other In Namesake, Fable discovers the truth behind looming secrets whose answers her mother took to her grave When she stumbles across her daughter's elaborate road trip plan, which Talia created for her then-soon-to-be-empty-nester She's good at crunching the numbers for work, taking care of her daughter, and leaning on her grandparents Friends and siblings are pitted against each other, and some of our main protagonists are faced with

Yunxian's eventual arranged marriage means she lives under the thumb of a controlling mother-in-law,

brutalizing and intimidating classmates and teachers, smoking cigars, and drinking jug wine, among other watching an actress play the role of tough, questioning Imogene Herdman as she plays gruff, protective new mother

His mother died when he was young, and he has no memory of her. The weight put upon Hiram's inability to remember early moments with his mother felt unfair and its resolution of the real-life Still family for the family portrayed in The Water Dancer but refers the reader to other

Her mother Star is old friends with Walk and Vincent, and when Vincent reappears, the tenuous peace and She's good at crunching the numbers for work, taking care of her daughter, and leaning on her grandparents a solitary young woman in a cold, neglectful, abusive family, and Connell, a popular athlete whose mother Connell's bond and the roots of their relationship aren't straightforward or simple, but their draw to each other

A few other recent-ish memoirs on my to-read list that I'm particularly excited about are: Reasons to full review of this book, see In Pieces. 04 Blood by Allison Moorer "I'm still trying not to be the daughter Allison Moorer is a Grammy- and Academy Award-nominated singer-songwriter whose father killed her mother of an understanding of the people her parents were and the forces that shaped their lives (and their daughters place in the world, her responsibility to humans and animals, and how she might better the lives of others

the fifteen-year-old she was then--a choir member; a three-season athlete; an excellent student; the daughter In Notes on a Silencing, Crawford, now a wife and mother, considers the many infuriating, appalling intersections

Which other books should I add to my science fiction to-read list? Now she must delve into the darkness of her history to try to save her mother--and uncover her own true When her mother disappears, Josie begins to track down the other Girls, and together the young women She's a little creaky and sore, sure, but she's ready to be reunited with the team, which includes her mother and the rest of her family, plus many others involved in the complex project.

life and schooling in wealthy Kenilworth, then Hotchkiss and Yale and beyond—and her search to help other practical surgeon Thomas begins speaking aloud and at length to his long-dead Indian relatives, his daughter Amina is called home to try to soothe him and help her mother figure out what's going on. Yet there are bright points: some rare friendships emerge, sisters build intense loyalty to each other I could have listed many other powerful books about immigrants (What Is the What, American Street, The

Josie's studies and desire to learn more about her "virgin birth" drive a wedge between Josie and her mother Her mother's disappearance leads Josie to track down the other Girls, and together they discover strange , unique powers as they rely on each other and attempt to unravel their shared history.

Morton is also the author of Homecoming, The Clockmaker's Daughter, The Secret Keeper, The House at Riverton

Other characters in the novel face mutation-related difficulties--including Wren's new friend, who finds We track back through time to witness Wren's mother's youth and the way her own mutation and diagnosis

But after the school opened, Ellingham's wife and daughter were kidnapped. It's an effective way to communicate if you don't have any other options.

Their cultures are sometimes mysteries to each other, and at times conflict greatly with others' traditions I was fascinated by Pylväinen's explorations of how the old ways and new ways pushed against each other as Violet, a young ship's stewardess bent on providing for her family after her father's death and mother's Her mother is a street-smart, scrabbling single parent, while Adina is an unusually perceptive child- But Gwendoline and Arthur detest each other.

Luisa and Maddalena become fast friends--and hatch a plan where each of them helps the other achieve British parents Millie and Reginald Thompson make an impossible choice: to send their eleven-year-old daughter

Police officers, judges, lawyers, and other community leaders who were part of the white supremacist hate group looked out for each other, and they seemed impervious to inconveniences like the law or justice Her young daughter is missing, and Ella is in limbo, desperately hoping she hears news soon. centers around these three characters, their unlikely connections, and their growing importance to each other

He's running whiskey to juke joints, brothels, and other seedy spots in his 1940 Ford, driving fast, grandmother, a healer with strong opinions about Rory's love interest, a snake-handling preacher's daughter Meanwhile, Winston's wife is in cancer treatment and his daughter has just experienced a devastating John Hart has also written many other books, including The Hush, the second in the Johnny Merrimon series Hart has written many other books, including The Hush, which is the second in the Johnny Merrimon series

rest of our lives, every time one of us goes somewhere and doesn’t return on time, doesn’t let the others Kim's missing-person story is also about a family deeply connecting to each other and going to extraordinary and have better prospects than Opal herself has had since the loss and disappearance of their single mother

things to remain undisturbed; the intensity of love and annoyance of either being with the same two other the fanciful children's books in the Moomin series as well as the short stories and novels Sculptor's Daughter

Lisa Gardner is also the author of two other Frankie Elkin novels, which I loved, Before She Disappeared a young girl, the forgotten granddaughter of a Scottish king, tries to cope with her guilt over her mother's

She's the primary caregiver for her father, who has Parkinson's disease; she pays the bills; her mother In this historical fiction, Marshall explores the goings-on at 1960s unwed mothers' homes in Canada-- The female characters' stories are deeply intertwined; I saw some of the events coming but not others Ash is struggling with her own imperfections as a mother, wife, and friend as she tries to figure out and demonstrating her ability to neutralize the supernatural abilities of werewolves, vampires, and other

His father's out of the picture, his mother's in jail, his stepfather is gone, and his best friend and If he can just manage his mother's tendency to fall in with the wrong man; get the reporter Caitlyn Spies recurring dreams and his brother August's premonitions might mean; and determine whose voice is on the other He can't face any other possibility. In many ways, Boy Swallows Universe defies categorization. were fully implausible, with questionable, fleeting benefits that felt sure to end badly, and some other

months in the life of an extended family--including a stolid patriarch and matriarch, a free-spirited daughter , a spunky and fantastic granddaughter Gussie, a daughter with another grandchild on the way, a deadbeat Anything that was wrapped up a little too neatly didn’t bother me at all; I was all in and satisfied.

North Carolina's Rash (he teaches at Western Carolina University) is also the author of other books set She's a photographer with mixed feelings about the idea of becoming a mother, and when a student in one

month and lays them alongside Big Moments of Realization--which often require grace and forgiveness, other musters forgiveness for painful events in his past while developing a mounting unwillingness to look the other Claire Keegan is also the author of Foster, Antarctica, Walk the Blue Fields, The Forester's Daughter

and Simon the Fiddler are two more by Paulette Jiles that I've waxed poetic about on this blog, and others If you like historical fiction, check out these other Bossy Bookworm Greedy Reading Lists: Six Historical And which other books should I add to my Civil War historical fiction to-read list? This is a gentle, slow-paced story from the heart-wrenchingly gorgeous writer. 05 Daughter of a Daughter of a Queen by Sarah Bird Bird's Daughter of a Daughter of a Queen is based on the story of a real-life

Lena Papadopoulos is the daughter of the legendary illusionist Theo. When Libby goes to sleep she consistently wakes in her other life, alternating her realities reliably But she knows that when she turns 21, she must choose one life or the other, leaving the other behind Stories to Explore and Six Second-Chance, Do-Over, Reliving-Life Stories--or you can search this site for other

with a potentially dangerous man in the vulnerable middle of nowhere, and her struggle to protect her daughter O'Farrell is also the author of other books I've really liked: Hamnet, The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox books I haven't yet read: After You'd Gone, The Distance Between Us, The Hand that First Held Mine, and others

Angry, confused, and filled with dread, Robin drags her daughter Haley back to Four Points in hopes of without her past desperation, she wouldn't have found the strength to persist and take care of her daughter

Crying in H Mart is a complicated, layered love letter to Zauner's mother, who is dying of colorectal Her other selves seem uncannily apt to die, so Cara is able to visit 372 other Earths where her counterparts Her mother Star is old friends with Walk and Vincent, and when Vincent reappears, the tenuous peace and She's good at crunching the numbers for work, taking care of her daughter, and leaning on her grandparents The best friends and their love interests delve into their complex connections with each of the others

She is, herself, an adoptive mother who believes in the process--and she has a complicated past that Kids are more sage in some ways and more youthful in others.

She's the primary caregiver for her father, who has Parkinson's disease; she pays the bills; her mother young-woman Maddie making her way in the world in London in Maame reminded me somewhat of Girl, Woman, Other

After a terrible storm that took her mother's life, young Fable was abandoned by her father, who's a He becomes involved with the family whose daughter and ward died as he works to find clues, donning disguises

is putting a damper on things, in Malibu, California, famous model and skilled surfer Nina Riva--the daughter Nina's parents' tangled love story, Nina's youth, her famous surfer/photographer siblings' stories, and others Stories about Bands and Music, as well as the books The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, After I Do, and others

points of view of the persecuted, disrespected, and dismissed: prostitutes, the poor, unwed teenage mothers Sometimes Dolly lets them fall, but other times her songs about freedom (with her metaphors of butterflies

Teenage Connor's elderly friend died, his boyfriend talked him into coming out, and now his mother thinks He started A Very Punchable Face with a story that is really his mother's (to be fair, it's interesting He's playing in a "scratch band" near the Texas coast with other big-hearted characters to try to make Paulette Jiles also wrote two other Civil War-era historical fiction books I loved, News of the World

His personal situation is complicated by his grief for his recently deceased daughter, and he aims to strange, affecting situations, including those in which: the virus causes organs to transform into other in-between world of floating, nebulous memories that highlights humans’ struggles to connect to each other chance to look back on pivotal moments from their life, and some do so with regret or wistfulness, while others Characters appear in the backgrounds of others’ stories; a necklace disappears from one story in the

In order to keep her husband, young daughters, and partner safe, Elise may have to keep some crucial

Sharratt offers vivid historical fiction details of the everyday life of Margery of Kempe, a mother of begins to carefully share her vivid (and dangerously disruptive) loving religious visions with trusted others Julian's papers and her own visions; meeting largely with aggression, lies, and immense challenges; at other Sharratt has authored at least seven other historical fiction novels--including Illuminations, about

centers around Sunday Brennan, who has returned home to her New York hometown where her own secrets--and others Without other options, she skulks back to her hometown in New York. interesting that within the almost mythological family that is based upon so much lore, the deceased mother

She's Hollywood royalty, and her former movie star mother lives in a home on the same compound. I heard the dialogue in her voice, I had a mental image of Debbie Reynolds as her mother, and Star Wars What other titles might fit the bill?

And which other books should I add to my food memoir to-read list? Reichl explores how one's appearance affects how others treat you--not a revolutionary concept, but I I found her teenage daughter's sections somewhat irritating, but it must be tough to be a teenager drawn She credits those who shaped her culinary journey: the Queen of Mold (her mother, a notorious food poisoner

Now his sister Amanda, a young adult who first learned of Dennis while researching her birth mother,

She takes us through falling in love with her first husband Jay Molner, having their two daughters while work friendship with Matt Lauer, and her healthy professional competitiveness with Diane Sawyer and other I did find the personal, passing sharing of others' intimate details jarring, however (regarding lascivious

Harriet and Win were attracted to each other from the start, but they spent ages trying to deny it for long-distance while Harriet pursues her residency and Win, a furniture repair person, helps his sick mother here, and you might like to check out its spot on Six More Great Light Fiction Stories plus the five other

buoyed only by meandering thoughts of the past--including her life's one tender connection, to the young daughter But Gwendoline and Arthur detest each other. He teaches English to children and adjusts to the shock of living in a flat with many other people--and to accept impending doom, their wavering hope, and the incredibly powerful bonds they build to each other Her mother is a street-smart, scrabbling single parent, while Adina is an unusually perceptive child-