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I found the family dynamic related to her mother's demands of Elsie absurd.

The Coneses are a "respectable" family, her mother says approvingly, and the father of the family is suddenly has a front-row seat to wild behavior, musical experimentation, group therapy, and all sorts of other Blau is also the author of six other books.

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

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

Mary Sharratt also wrote Revelations, historical fiction about the life of Margery of Kempe, a mother

If you like those too, you might like to search the site for other books in this vein, or check out the Reliving-Life Stories or Six Riveting Time-Travel Stories to Explore. 03 Bomb Shelter: Love, Time, and Other her children's health challenges and takes the reader through her son's emergence of epilepsy and her daughter's

The family farm in Nebraska has been foreclosed upon, his mother is gone, and his father has recently A woman recognizes him and impulsively spills the story of her mother Margot Bamborough's mysterious

husband will adhere to her wishes--and begins to carefully share her vivid religious visions with trusted others Julian's papers and her own visions, meeting at times with aggression, lies, and immense challenges; at other Jen married young and is about to become a mother, while Riley is poised to become one of the first Black Their lives have gone in different directions, but the women still care about each other.

Her widowed mother and her longtime best friend are each in love with wonderful partners, and Shay's exes in order to host a promising radio show about relationships, they're forced to get to know each other

And all of this seems potentially linked to his deceased, brilliant mother's life's work--from before chases; the most intense sibling rivalry imaginable, interesting scenes of superhumans' outsmarting each other ; and noble desires to "save the world" that conflict with others’ similar desires in crucial ways--and

But when she returns to the lake for Sam Florek's mother's funeral, she's swept back into the connection

She frequently focuses on her obsession with Real Housewives, the Kardashians, and other reality television Her experiences in television were interesting, and her account of coping with the loss of her mother

young adult science fiction novel Cold the Night, Fast the Wolves, young Sena has lost both of her mothers But first she'll have to trust others for the first time and leave herself vulnerable to them--and she'll

But what if that isn't the whole story of Medea, the daughter of a sea nymph and granddaughter of a Titan

Do you have all-time favorite reads that you steadily recommend to others? The other doctors have all left. You might also be interested in other reads with World War I settings . 04 Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets You can also check out other memoirs I've read --and more musicians' memoirs . 05 Wrong Place, Wrong The story begins with a mother awaiting her teenage son's return home late one night.

When her mother faces a health crisis, as they’ve long feared one of them might, the family's security jobs (in a sweatshop, sewing factory, with cold, purpled hands rolling sushi for endless hours, and others immigrants in the US so terrifyingly tenuous and measures that could potentially shift this situation for others

for the affluent Padgetts, who own the marble-mining company that employs Sylvie's father and many other secrets, and doing "one right thing," a way of navigating the world that Sylvie has learned from her mother

In the northern Appalachian mountains, Cooper and his young daughter Finch live in complete isolation This series of unexpected events upends everything for Cooper--some in the best ways and others in the

Kaikeyi is one of eight children and the only daughter of a king whose lands are ruled by the gods' powerful fights for autonomy, for a voice, for strength, for knowledge--and she is determined to secure these for other

She's been raised by her caring, no-nonsense single mother in a mostly white northern California town That we’d run into each other’s arms? For other great young adult books, you might try the titles on the Greedy Reading List Six Fantastic

Raised by a codependent, emotionally stunted alcoholic mother who frequently abandons the kids for days

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

Rowley's sassy, heartwarming fiction about an uncle caring for his young niece and nephew after their mother's They each have their grief and confusion, but they also adore each other and have their love to fall “To other people, it sometimes seems like nothing at all. Her other selves seem uncannily apt to die, so Cara is able to visit 372 other Earths where her counterparts data, the purpose of which is of no interest to her--she's more focused on tracking the shadows of her other

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?

I'd love to hear about others you love! Now he lives life as a regular guy; he works in IT, he’s happily married, and he has a beloved daughter When he begins to have memory loss and other odd symptoms, he realizes it’s linked to his past time travel have to break all the rules of time travel to attempt the impossible: preserve the existence of his daughter There are links to other Mitchell books and characters if you're paying attention, but the book can stand

Bea has always been a worrier, and as her father's happiness blooms, she worries: that her mother is let on; that she's being left out of things; that having two homes will mean she's always missing the other one; and that her own periodic lack of impulse control and rage may have contributed to others' pain Have you read other Rebecca Stead books? I'm reading whatever she's writing at this point.

Riley lives on her cousins’ Wisconsin farm, where she’s grown up since the death of her mother. Can they learn to trust each other and face the past in order to move forward?

As for the other characters, Alex's father is pure negligence and willful ineptitude, and he feels too Her mother subsumes herself into marriage and motherhood, with disastrous results, while her strong, for young readers including The Girl Who Drank the Moon, Iron Hearted Violet, The Witch's Boy, and others

Ursula Burton, an unassuming mother and wife, was a legendary real-life spy who evaded capture by China The unassuming-seeming mother and wife was actually a legendary spy who evaded capture by China, the

the medical profession during an era when this was not the norm, and the details of her care for new mothers

If you like books about magic, here are two other Bossy Bookworm Greedy Reading Lists you might enjoy When the long-lost sisters do unexpectedly cross each other's paths again at last, the world's seams She's a witch who has sworn off magic; she fled her powerful mother and coven, but they didn't want to There are instances of trickery related to lineage and other similar surprises. Circe, daughter of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, is an odd child.

She's Barbara Van Lear, the daughter of the owners of the camp where many local residents work. house, she discovers a horrible tragedy--two of her sisters (one, her best friend) are dead and two others Other books that center around a podcast are Listen for the Lie   (reviewed above) and also the Good and Tokyo Dreaming  and Tokyo Forever , as well as Mika in Real Life , Empress for All Seasons , and other

Ursule Orchière watches her mother fooling local women with her false spells, using her family history

on the Greedy Reading List Six Short Story Collections to Wow You, or you might like some of these other But when she returns to the lake for Sam Florek's mother's funeral, she's swept back into the connection

For my full review of this book, please see A Curious Beginning. 04 The Clockmaker's Daughter In 1862 would have dreamed of becoming a doctor if society would allow it, but she's stuck working off her mother's So here's the greedy question: What are some other historical fiction mysteries I should read?

I loved this story of how Joanna and Gabe are inextricably drawn to each other and into Ursa's magically In Glendy Vanderah's Where the Forest Meets the Stars, Joanna is feeling adrift after her mother's death Gabe keeps to himself and has his own painful past, but he and Joanna are inextricably drawn to each other

The relationship between stepmother Hannah and her stepdaughter Bailey, whose mother has died, is fraught Have you read Hello, Sunshine, The First Husband, Eight Hundred Grapes, or any of her others?

Click here   for my full review of A Song to Drown Rivers --and for links to my Bossy reviews of other The children are largely unattended during this time, but their bonds to each other are solidified. They're from other times in history. What brings the book to life are versions of the real-life figures of Mother Jones (the elderly woman He teaches English to children and adjusts to the shock of living in a flat with many other people--and

Her mother was from a longtime, well-respected Washington, DC-based Black family, the Fleets, and her To read other Bossy fiction and nonfiction reviews on the site of books that address issues of race, Marie Benedict is also the author of The Other Einstein, The Mystery of Mrs. the author of Stand Your Ground, A Sin and a Shame, Too Little, Too Late, Never Say Never, and many other

Mick, whose mother is emotionally unavailable (and barely physically present), has a lot to figure out The girls fall hard for each other--but they've built their early relationship on lies that could destroy Veronica and Mick will have to figure out if they can trust each other with their lives. realistically messy mistakes and experience devastating betrayals, but to also bravely try to trust each other

Her sister dates boy after boy, two of her best friends are making eyes at each other, and she's sick Her mother starts dating again. And to top things off, her father announces his engagement.

Anthropocene Reviewed  (which was one of my six favorite nonfiction reads  the year I read it) as well as other own sometimes dark writing, she is disgusted by the rest of her cohort--childish women who call each other Denny lives a quiet life in small-town Minnesota, caring for his elderly mother with the companionship zing about a secretly trans high school teacher in a small town in South Dakota who befriends the only other

Belle's elaborate efforts to disguise her family’s background (her mother was from a longtime, well-respected I listed other heartbreaking and beautiful memoirs about facing death and loss in the Greedy Reading

His father and mother were similarly brutally damaged by Amy's disappearance. spend much of the page time that leads up to that moment--that is, by far the bulk of the book--with other the books on the Greedy Reading List Six Second-Chance, Do-Over, Reliving-Life Stories or some of the other

Since her mother Defne went into a coma and never woke up, young loner Ada Kazantzakis has continued 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 They're polar opposites, and they drive each other crazy. They're from other times in history.

Wong structures her memoir into letters for her daughters without editing out her intimate experiences What others am I missing? #memoir, #threestarbookreview

Her daughter cut her own hair (and bloodied her scalp), her babysitter didn't show up, and the unpaid Finlay's suspense novel--along with the bloody cloth in her bag that she used earlier to stanch her daughter's still flares, he behaves spontaneously when he might stop and consider, his grudging affection for others

Walsh's The Love of My Life, Emma is a marine biologist who's devoted to her husband Leo and their young daughter

You can click here for other mysteries I've reviewed on Bossy Bookworm. In order to keep her husband, young daughters, and partner safe, Elise may have to keep some crucial For my full review (and links to my reviews of the other books in this series), check out As Good As Veronica and Stoker's pasts, partnership, and their growing fondness for and vulnerability with each other But when the shop owner, Clay Cooper, who owns several other local businesses, is a town council member

But a hotshot racer, a has-been treasure hunter, and others in their secret society know that the ship brother, and she's learned to make light of everything from cracks about her plus-sized figure to her mother's