moment: a dark, intriguing story of interconnectedness between unusual characters; a novel about a family straddling cultures and in which family members to find their way back to each other by traveling around copy of this book courtesy of Dundurn Press and NetGalley. 02 The Arsonists' City by Hala Alyan A rich family In the novel The Arsonists' City, Hala Alyan presents a family in which a Syrian mother, a Lebanese father With plenty of secrets, messy interpersonal family interactions, love, and loss--and all of this against

Coker is fresh out of jail and ready to jump back into the action, masterminding moves to increase her family's

In 1942, as World War II disrupts the world, Violet is stuck in her family's ramshackle estate when she

Turner's story is inspired by her family's memoirs, and her Sarah Prine is a strong woman living on the The Bemis and Webber families have no other neighbors for miles, so they're not only inextricably interconnected wives must face their hard feelings toward each other and forge an unlikely alliance if they and their families Her gold sense has kept her family fed and sheltered, but it's dangerous too.

She works alongside her family, also caring for the plantation owners' daughter Violet and gaining cursory

Certain elements of Strike's past, his family history, and his volatile relationships are resolved in

Lake by Ann Patchett In Ann Patchett's newest novel, Tom Lake, Lara's three daughters reunite at the family's

The tone of the book is joyful and vibrant, and Abu-Jaber intermingles thoughts on faith and family ( multiple television series featuring Anthony Bourdain traveling the world, inserting himself into both familiar Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver "Author Barbara Kingsolver and her family lay out the baby steps of her shifting views of food and of her process for growing or obtaining her family's Reichl traces the roots of her interest in food, cooking, connecting, family, and the intersections of

He begins wondering about unexplained aspects of his own family history, and when the three of them travel

Scheiner focuses on the three sons in the Holik family who made up the heart of the Czech team--and whose "Magic" Johnson, 1986 Biographer Roland Lazenby conducted hundreds of interviews of fellow players, family

That Again, Grant Ginder’s upcoming (to be published tomorrow) bitingly funny novel about politics and family Let's Not Do That Again is a combination of biting humor, family drama, and playful, oddball joy. If you're familiar with actor Seth Rogen (Freaks and Geeks, Knocked Up, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, and Steve

Without airing out all of the family's dirty laundry, let's just say that this time Tess has really taken So Tess's family decides to send her to a nunnery. But Tess has other plans.

I was particularly taken with the familial angle (Secretary of State Adams's daughter has taken over

but the book doesn't feel that way) in varied points of view surrounding a Palestinian and an Israeli family Forever by Rachel Beanland The backdrop for the story of a few summer months in the life of an extended family There’s an undercurrent of concern about Hitler and his increasingly punitive behavior toward Jewish families

banter and an opposites-attract tension in this heartwarming rom-com about divorce, trust, blended families her pivotal childhood encounters with nature, and for me the book really shone when she included her family's

The search for Eve morphs into an uncomfortable encounter between Val and a volatile family; a terrible

a young woman, while facing complicated key figures from her own past--and fighting to keep her own family

citizen June has been groomed her whole life for a military position of leadership befitting her wealthy family /"Did you lead to the death of my family members, or do I love you?"

Intermezzo by Sally Rooney Intermezzo is one of my favorite Rooney novels yet, exploring complicated families They must dive into their own secrets, trauma, career weaknesses, faulted parents, and fractured families

joy and reflection, an irresistible young protagonist, and a wonderful array of friends who are like family But when she awakens the next morning bracing to face the living nightmare her family has begun living

Meanwhile a family whose sons all seem cursed to die before their twenty-fourth birthdays has its luck

We were trying to build a machine that saved our families. In A.G. But when she awakens the next morning bracing to face the living nightmare her family has begun living

, Ann Liang's funny dialogue, characters' various interpersonal challenges and victories, and messy family

Radden Keefe Keefe offers an infuriating, fascinating, meticulously researched account of the Sackler family to Empire of Pain, Patrick Radden Keefe's exhaustive, revolting, fascinating history of the Sackler family dramas, multiple marriages, handshake deals, amassing of vast wealth, and ruthless promotion of the family's mature yet still pliable person, brimming with experiences both old and new, who doesn’t rely solely on familiar

Lisa Jewell is also the author of The Family Upstairs. 02 The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year by Margaret

on a secluded English estate, Chilcombe Manor, on to World War II, as experienced by a community of family coal-company enforcers to subdue rebellion; the years of suffering for thousands of vulnerable mining families

In the Colorado town of Blackwater Falls, girls from immigrant families have been disappearing.

I had fun reading about the glamorous modeling-surfing-photography-music star family pedigree. fun with the various siblings' stories and with the glamorous modeling-surfing-photography-music star family

She's living a hardscrabble life on her family's Pennsylvania farm, working ceaselessly for her rough eighteen-year-old named Janet, and she is delighted to be taken on as a hired girl for the refined Rosenbach family

Maddalena is sent to the Pietà temporarily after scandal threatens to ruin her family's longstanding

Wilson's memoir Rebel Rising , and I'm listening to the Australian's account of a challenging youth, familial

a young man considering his life as he travels to pay tribute to a recently deceased friend of the family focuses her literary fiction lens on the character of Ursula, her relationships with members of her family former caregiver, who lived in the household with all of them for a time, has died suddenly at her family's

France, as well as extensive forays into the country's traditions, political interests, and its royal family's Alice's career as a photographer really began the summer she spent with her grandmother Nan at family

The Books I'm Reading Now I took a Bossy break last week while traveling with family, but I spent time

irresistible, oddball tragicomedy with heart, characters explore the limits and solidity of friendship and family

former caregiver, who lived in the household with all of them for a time, has died suddenly at her family's war and love, but his journey to the north inspires him to consider issues of class and loyalty and family

considers aspects of her parents' lives previously unknown to her; and she pieces together facts about her family

intentions of almost everyone in State of Terror while still making me feel invested in the story, Adams's family review, check out Going There. 06 Beautiful Country by Qian Julie Wang Wang's memoir illustrates her family But when Qian Wang and her family arrived in the United States from China, her parents were no longer Wang takes the reader through the family's extreme poverty upon their arrival in New York City, their

, thousands of years of customs and traditions to learn, tricky rivalries and jealousies within her family logging in the Pacific Northwest for his whole life--just like his father before him and generations of family Now Pip and Ravi are happily dating, her family has stopped worrying about her so much, and Max Hastings

memoir The Woman in Me, Britney Spears offers the story of her life to date: her youth, complicated family

irresistible, and I loved the ways in which they adjust, adapt, grieve, press on, and form a makeshift family

But when she awakens the next morning bracing to face the living nightmare her family has begun living

The story takes place in northern Canada, but the tragedy is uncomfortably familiar and based on real-life Indian Training School and the "restructuring" that cut off American Indians from their culture, their families

creepy-crawlies throughout this story and instead delight in the humor, the noble quest, the unlikely heroes, the familial

Family is pitted against family; those who worship the old gods clash against those who embrace Christianity

the bombing and danger in wartime London to the English countryside, where they lived with a rural family

wonder; the irresistible second book in Naomi Novik's Scholomance trilogy; Yaa Gyasi's story about family the imagined, robust details of life on two neighboring farms and within two inescapably connected families I listened to Transcendent Kingdom, Yaa Gyasi's novel about a Ghanaian family living in Alabama. neuroscience and is focused on studying addiction--an interest and passion inspired by haunting events in her family's Gyasi is also the author of the fascinating, beautiful book Homegoing, which traces generations of a family

Javier Zamora Zamora's memoir of his grueling journey from El Salvador to the United States without family Newman's writing is irresistible; she offers a heartbreaking and heartwarming tribute to friendship and to family heartbreaking and wonderfully strange, funny and full of love, and a tribute to deeply loving friendships and families

Duchess is a thirteen-year-old girl trying to keep her family together. with Walk and Vincent, and when Vincent reappears, the tenuous peace and calm Duchess and her steady family But both of the longtime family friends are used to disappointment and both are used to relying on themselves appealingly strong young women split by time (and, secondarily, complex male characters the women love as family Rooney In Rooney's novel Normal People, Marianne, a solitary young woman in a cold, neglectful, abusive family

Toya Gardner has returned from Atlanta to her rural North Carolina town to track her family's history