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four-year-old brother, and she's learned to make light of everything from cracks about her full figure to her mother's

delving into the all-consuming obsessions the desperate young Alva likely had with appearances and others She still loves architecture, fashion, and travel—and secures a financially stable future for her daughter

But to be fair, she's emerging from a fog of trauma after her mother's death, her father has abandoned The Maid, main protagonist Molly finds a hotel guest dead in his room, and her eccentric manner--and other's than capable of extricating herself from suspicion by using the many personal qualities that have led others But things quickly take a turn as pirates and other dangers threaten the makeshift family on the Wayfarer They each have reasons to mistrust others, but they'll have to trust and rely on each other more than

She's the primary caregiver for her father, who has Parkinson's disease; her mother spends the majority

Untamed, she shares lessons she's learned through being true to herself, loving herself and caring for others In often very short essays, she explores living genuinely despite others' criticisms; giving herself and expressing a full gamut of emotions rather than keeping the peace; rejecting the myth of ideal mothers

Wilder's rom-com takes us behind the scenes of a hit teen TV show whose lead characters once liked each other in real life but now can't stand each other. the popular paranormal television show Intangible, and for multiple seasons they've yearned for each other Shane and Lilah detest each other. In order to keep her husband, young daughters, and partner safe, Elise may have to keep some crucial

Anniversaries of the event, her mother's book about the experience, and a community that wouldn't allow drove Arden to move and then move again, eventually changing her name to Olivia, leaving behind her mother

Which other books should I add to my to-read robot book list? It gleans tips about holding conversations and functioning around others by watching its favorite show 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. But Divya is too busy crafting strong female main protagonists (complete with working mother guilt, which

Jost begins A Very Punchable Face with a story that is really his mother's (to be fair, it's gripping But his mother's story helped Jost set the scene for his own origins and his strong Staten Island roots sketch's producer, for example, a dynamic whose implications Jost explores somewhat, and he also shares other

Now I'm reading The Paper Palace, Miranda Cowley Heller's novel about a middle-aged woman exploring other Chin Man; her brother Nana's athletic obsession, his injury, and his subsequent drug addiction; her mother's

What other series that have to do with court, queens, and royalty would you include on this list? this was possibly my favorite among favorites), Thick As Thieves , and Return of the Thief are the other of the Tearling series by Erika Johansen Exiled Princess Kelsea is trying to reclaim the crown her mother

Toni grows up feeling like a painful afterthought to her mother's desperate efforts to advance her own Axelrod has numerous other books, so if you're in for this one you have many more offerings from her

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

to be more layered and complicated than it first seemed; and Devlin can't seem to keep her teenage daughter girl" greeting from the recently met grown-man male detective partner to Devlin's thirteen-year-old daughter To a lesser extent, so was the daughter's telling her traumatized aunt how pretty she is (while soothingly

Which other books would you include on this list? What fairy tales for grown-ups have you loved? The Girl in the Tower and The Winter of the Witch are the others, and I think Arden's stories get even The swirl of events draws other innocent young women into Miryem's complicated web and toward potential would have dreamed of becoming a doctor if society would allow it, but she's stuck working off her mother's

Let's Not Do That Again is largely focused on Nancy's daughter Greta's self-obsessed, revengeful, immature

When Miriam stumbles across her daughter's elaborate road trip plan, which Talia created for her then-soon-to-be-empty-nester I had already become satisfied with the lead-up and the shifts in Miriam's situation, so it didn't bother

Mother takes one look at the swirling cloud from the kitchen stoop and declares that she will not leave Rebecca despairs at her situation, yet she is a wonderfully defiant and strong character--her mother

Did you read any other science fiction novels in the past year (or otherwise) that you loved? Her mother is a street-smart, scrabbling single parent, while Adina is an unusually perceptive child- Some choose not to look into their boxes at all, while others use the knowledge of their short strings Now they must rely on each other to survive--and together they stumble upon a widespread plot with corruption majestic beauty of earth, feel emotional distance from those they've left behind, forge bonds with each other

everything about families and love and life, he had never recognized having had any romantic feelings about other open to life and experiences, idolized an openly gay senator, and who (along with his president of a mother

Her daughter cut her own hair (and bloodied her scalp), her babysitter didn't show up, and the unpaid the plot of Finlay's suspense novel--along with a bloody cloth (which she used earlier to stanch her daughter's

have BFF Marco along, and it's satisfying to witness Bree attempting to understand with compassion her mother's

Her oddball mother (who Lucy desperately adores but who requires careful avoidance of certain topics lot of off-limits topics, and Lucy assiduously attempts to navigate the conversational minefield her mother Her mother notes—with what seems like wonder and some resentment—that Lucy "ruthlessly" just went and In response to her mother's comment, Lucy says: But really, the ruthlessness, I think, comes in grabbing

Circe, daughter of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, is an odd child.

Russians are systematically eliminating scientists who betrayed Mother Russia to England and MI6 years

The book's sequel is The Book Woman's Daughter, published earlier this year.

title about retired middle-aged assassins, Killers of a Certain Age , and its sequel Kills Well with Others scenes didn't invite involuntary squealing or cringing on my part--they couple is really drawn to each other her beloved young niece the sky and serves as a second parent alongside her sometimes-trying single-mother You might also want to check out these other Bossy reviews of books about astronauts  and space . 04 Gerritsen In the second installment of the series, retired CIA agents build stronger bonds with each other

Ash is struggling with her own imperfections as a mother, wife, and friend as she tries to figure out

Catherine Newman is also the author of other books I love: We All Want Impossible Things , Waiting for outcasts in small-town Monta Clare, Missouri: Patch, a pirate-playing young man missing one eye, whose mother Characters frequently offer grand speeches to each other about how the world works, and these didn't If this book sounds appealing to you, you might also be interested in my Bossy reviews of other historical Winn's account of the unrelenting slog of World War I and the beautiful young men set against each other

Island, Notes from a Big Country, and Down Under, as well as two books about the English language, Mother

when tragedy strikes the community (and specifically Frank's family: his minister father, artistic mother

Donna Everhart is also the author of The Road to Bittersweet, The Moonshiner's Daughter, The Education

She frequently focuses on her obsession with Real Housewives, the Kardashians, and other reality television Her account of coping with the loss of her mother and her fears about her son's development feel more Without other options, she skulks back to her hometown in New York.

Arsonists' City, Hala Alyan presents a complicated situation for an extended family in which a Syrian mother clumsily come together, fighting through pain, working through misunderstanding, and forgiving each other

Do you have all-time favorite reads that you often recommend to others? The other doctors have all left. As she digs into the inspirations for her music she quotes her own lyrics--along with, occasionally, others The story begins with a mother awaiting her teenage son's return home late one night.

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 irritating, but it has to be tough to be a teenager drawn into She credits those who shaped her culinary journey: the Queen of Mold (her mother, a notorious food poisoner

Casey Peabody is an aspiring writer struggling with her novel, her mother's recent death, crushing financial For much of the book Casey is unraveling--her mother has died, she's estranged from her father, her grim

She's facing her mother’s decline in health and exploring her own identity and meaning in her life, and As always, there are references to other parts of the David Mitchell universe, and the links to other She's Hollywood royalty, and her former movie star mother lives in a home on the same compound. Kolker ​ Robert Kolker retraces the lives of Mimi and Don Glavin as they raise their ten sons and two daughters She can serve as a muse; she can inspire music and art in others; she can learn what others want or need

For my full review of this book, please see The River. 03 Call Your Daughter Home by Deb Spera ​ I worried But she and the other characters were developed fully. For my full review of this book, please see Call Your Daughter Home. 04 The World That We Knew by Alice The golem and heron and other ethereal elements could have been distracting, but they worked. I kept thinking about it while I was doing other things, and I just wanted to get back to Edward to find

Dodd, who has slaughtered various innocents and, Chenneville believes, requires Chenneville to exact They regarded each other silently. Something had happened, something he had not wanted to happen. these things were orbits and they heavenly bodies flung into certain trajectories to accompany each other

Tunneling to the Center of the Earth, and Ron Rash's Something Rich and Strange. 01 Thunderstruck & Other scenes (the artist's exhibition, the actual on-the-spot printed and posted corrections of "fact," and others Meloy is also the author of Liars and Saints and A Family Daughter as well as the story collection Half North Carolina's Rash (he teaches at Western Carolina University) is also the author of other Appalachia-set Made Straight, Burning Bright, Above the Waterfall, The Risen, The Cove, and One Foot in Eden, among others

O'Farrell, author of Hamnet, turns her attention to Renaissance Italy to tell a story of a precocious third daughter

McConaughey mines his decades of diaries, lived experiences, memories, and other frequently unexpected or young adult sons; McConaughey recognizes the brutality and the unorthodox approach, but as with other occurrences of ferocity he mentions (his mother's broken fingers and varied instances of his parents ' volatile relationship are other examples of this), he accepts it, finds what wisdom or understanding

novel about a family straddling cultures and in which family members to find their way back to each other In the novel The Arsonists' City, Hala Alyan presents a family in which a Syrian mother, a Lebanese father Some are notable, others comfortable, and still others are full of destruction and pain. There's a lot to unpack from Haig's (also the author of How to Stop Time and others) fascinating premise

The characters' peering at and studying each other’s body patterns felt extremely invasive and intrusive (The father-daughter examination tradition at puberty--!

author of The Ten Thousand Doors of January, writes about three sisters who were raised by a powerful mother young women is in the middle of her own high-stakes crisis, and none of them expects to ever find the others But when they unexpectedly cross each other's paths, the world's seams split, offering a glimpse into

are orphaned siblings who must become tough as nails to make their way in the world and to boost each other journey with stories of the youth and origins of the siblings' recently deceased parents--their beloved mother

But her older sister Autumn has been emotionally closed off since their mother died and has become involved with the evolution of a love triangle; Ivy's reinforced comfort with her weight even as she notices others

and willing to go to great lengths to get her smart, emotionally unavailable, critical, passionate mother