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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

But others' visions for the story involve her eco-warrior main character morphing into a teen beauty joy-filled, energetic orbit--and into her loving family, which includes her volatile and no-nonsense mother bonds and reconsider their places in the world when they make choices that separate them from each other attention and sales, emerging with an enormous hit (and new pen name) overnight, as she would have others You might also like some of the other books with Indian settings I've reviewed on this Bossy site. 06

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

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

longtime friends and exes live in intimate solitude together, wondering about and worrying about their daughters

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.

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

every exquisite detail; the characters' growth, emotional distance, and unforeseen connections to each other Code. ​6 Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy by Ben McIntyre Ursula Burton, an unassuming mother The unassuming-seeming mother and wife was actually a legendary spy who evaded capture by China, the

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

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

Have you loved any other romantic comedy or lighter fiction stories lately? in real life but now can't stand each other. But in real life, Shane and Lilah detest each other. I found the family dynamic related to her mother's demands of Elsie absurd. Margot Hammer, on the other hand, is miserable.

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

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

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

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

They wake up texting each other their usual taunts and challenges. Her youngest daughter died in an unthinkable accident, and for Molly, making her way through each day So she walks away--from her distant husband, her always-furious oldest daughter, her absent middle son

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

Meanwhile, Winston's wife is in cancer treatment and his daughter has just experienced a devastating

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

honesty about what Bloom perceives as her own instances of weakness and pettiness; intense kindness from others You can find my full review of In Love here. 02 No Cure for Being Human (And Other Truths I Need to Hear Ollie's attempts to make sense of things after his father Rich's death from cancer; it follows his mother heartbreaking to witness various family members' attempts to do what they think is best for themselves and for others

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

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

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