Family life fiction Books

One of the longest running shows in Off Broadway history this delightful evening gives new meaning to the phrase "And now for something completely different!" Audience members are the guests at the nuptial celebration of Tony Nunzio and Valentina Vitale...

Marcia Kash and Doug Hughes FarceCharacters: 5 male 2 femaleInterior Set Jane and Sybil are on the verge of the deal of their lives. They have rented a hotel suite for a very private showing of their "Passion Fashion Wear" lingerie. Only famous Italian...

3m 2f / Comedy / InteriorStamp collecting is far more risky than you think. After their mother's death two estranged half-sisters discover a book of rare stamps that may include the crown jewel for collectors. One sister tries to collect on the windfall...

This powerful adaptation supported by a lyrical score focuses the humor warmth and emotional intensity of Katherine Paterson's Newbery Award-winning novel. Jesse alienated from the pragmatism of his family and rural Virginian culture draws and dreams of...

Play Jean Lenox ToddieCharacters: 2 female Bare stage or simple set. This witty look at mother daughter relationships is a light hearted exploration of irritations and misunderstandings that build walls between a woman and her female off spring-- and the...

Gladys the elderly matriarch of the Green family has run an art gallery in a small Greenwich Village hotel for many years. The management wants to replace her less-than-thriving gallery with a coffee shop. Always irascible but now increasingly erratic...

Characters: 3 male 4 femaleInterior and Exterior Set Scottie Templeton's a charming irresponsible fellow. A sometime Broadway press agent and former scriptwriter he's everyone's friend nobody's hero and a great womanizer who's managed to live over fifty...

ComedyBilly Van Zandt and Jane MilmoreCharacters: 3 male 3 femaleSingle set This wild bedroom farce involves infidelity double standards midnight rendezvous and a hungry bear. Danny and Kathy halt their night of sultry passion when Kathy reveals she is...

Lindsey is one of Dzanc's veteran authors with a wealth of connections and is raring to go on promoting her own book. She's already reached out to many authors about blurbs, including Lauren Groff, Laura van den Berg, and George Saunders Review and...

Ghost Mother is a mesmerising psychological ghost story that blurs the thin line between reality and delusion.'Ghost Mother has so many pleasures: a gorgeous old wreck of a house, a charmingly flawed and sympathetic heroine, supernatural...

Julian Tepper's fourth novel, Cooler Heads, is a story about modern love. With a triangulation of lovers and spouses, young children and careers struggling to get off the ground, in Celia and Paul we encounter two people in that pocket of life when the...

It's 1992, and ten-year-old Molly is tired of living in the fire-rotted, nun-haunted House of Friends: a Semi-Cooperative Living Community of Peace Faith(s) in Action with her formerly blind dad and their grieving housemate Evelyn. But when...

"David Lindsay-Abaire has crafted a drama that's not just a departure but a revelation-an intensely emotional examination of grief, laced with wit, insightfulness, compassion and searing honesty." David Rooney, Variety "A beautifully observed new play...

Don't look back.Did Eurydice want to return from the underworld? Did anybody ask?In this brilliant portrait of rage and resilience, a Korean woman tries to connect with her younger brother and grapple with family tragedy through bedtime stories that...

A sweeping family saga set against the backdrop of a Sikh wedding.On the morning of his nephew's wedding, Devinder Gill is certain the delicate balance of his life will not be upset. Dev is married to Kuldip, and together they are raising two young...

A sweet and spicy multiculturalromantic comedythat that blends the rich tapestry of Filipinocourtship ritualswith the modern complexities of love, family, and cultural expectations, written by #1 New York Times bestselling author Melissa de la Cruz.Evan...

Set in contemporary Iran, Mirage delves into the complicated relationship between Roya and her identical twin sister, Tala.Their inseparable bond becomes hard to maintain as they grow older, but when they both get pregnant at the same time, their...

A modern-day writer and a Harlem Renaissance artist are connected by a painting with a deadly secret in this gripping dual-timeline gothic thriller.Shanice Pierce knows better than to heed bad omens. But she has a hard time ignoring the signs when she...

Long out of print, Eugene Lim's wry and haunting debut novel returns to shelves with a new introduction from Renee Gladman and a fresh, reversible cover.Jim Fog is marooned in a small Midwest town shortly after his divorce, succumbing to aimless...

Hannah alwaysfinds a way to get what she wants.Daughter to Chloe Cartwright, an eccentric prize-winning writer more interested in politics than parenthood, and sister to a rugby-star brother, Hannah has never excelled at much besides shoplifting...

In this novel about poverty, social inequality, and class contempt in Norway, nineteen-year-old supermarket worker Emily is single, pregnant, and struggling to make ends meet.Em's nineteen years old and pregnant. Her boyfriend Pablo has gone out "to take...

Cultural shifts of the late twentieth century reveal dark secrets at an elite prep school, in this posthumously discovered novel by the author of "Our Crowd."Located in bucolic Connecticut, the Crittenden School has long held a venerable reputation as...

A moving novel about the devotions of friendship and the power of love to heal, American Sycamore celebrates the American experiment and the importance of giving a damn.Rob Barrow's devotion to the American experiment has never wavered. For forty years...

Competition for a bridal magazine cover unleashes mayhem, forcing a mastermind maid of honour to stop being a people pleaser and start figuring out what she wants out of life. A hilarious, smart coming-of-age story.Olivia 'Liv'...

Torrential and dreamlike, Mauro Javier Crdenas' novel unfurls into a layered, poignant, and unflinching portrait of how family separations have impacted the minds of Latin American deportees in a technology-bound 21st century.American Abductions opens in...

"Intensely readable and beautifully observed . . . full of wisdom, generosity, humor, and sharp insights."-Elif Batuman, author ofEither/OrandThe IdiotThree Israeli women, their lives altered by immigration to the United States, seek to overcome crises...

A pitch-perfect exploration of modern married life, Jessica Saunders's deliciously readable novel embraces the truth that some old flames can't be snuffed out, no matter how many years go by.Rachel Miller is a lawyer and mother of two who's just as...

The Rachel Conditionis at once a political thriller, a family saga, and a mind-bending love story that plays out through the mysterious byways of Detroit.Antony has ostensibly traveled to Detroit in search of the last copy of a dangerous political novel,...

Three women - the old mother and her two daughters - contemplate their family life and their bottled-up feelings through the novel's placating yet oddly unnerving prose.Years and Years is divided into four large chapters; the first unravels from the...

A 2024 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award Gold Medal Winner"A tense and twisty debut . . ." -Karen Dionne, author of the #1 international bestseller The Marsh King's Daughter and The Wicked Sister "Brimming with intrigue . . ." -Ellery Kane, award-winning...

New York Times Best Thriller of 2023New York Times Editors' Pick 2023For seventeen years, small-town public defender Andy Hughes has been underpaid to look after the poor, the addicted, and the unfortunate souls who constantly cycle through the courts,...

A tender and poignant debut of the redemptive power of unexpected friendship.In an old-fashioned fishing community on Morecambe Bay, change is imperceptibly slow. Treacherous tides sweep the quicksands, claiming everything in their path.As a boy, Arthur...

"The novel is a quiet but strong tour de force."~Marly Swick, author of Evening News: A Novel1992. Tyler Manning- high school teacher, part-time farmer, bachelor of 38-is planning his first day of summer vacation when a strange car approaches his Kansas...

From Bram Stoker Award-nominated author, Ross Jeffery, comes a new horror novel focused on a father's journey to find his missing daughter.Henry's daughter was fourteen when she went missing and he's been burying pieces of her ever since. Each totem...

Bad Foundationsis a comedic absurdist novel about a home foundation inspector whose own home life is falling apart.Cook does not have an ordinary job. He spends his days inspecting people's crawl spaces, cataloging their filth and photographing the decay...

In this playful and aching short novel, an unnamed trans woman is on an epic journey to find the place where she belongs.As she navigates her many realities, she must wrestle with anxieties and fears about the world. Her son and her ex live in another...

'Fresh, authentic and darkly funny. It's a beautifully told story full of warmth and emotion without ever being sentimental - I absolutely loved it' Ruth Hogan, bestselling author of The Keeper of Lost ThingsIt's the heatwave summer of 1976 and...

An addictive love story told in reverseDan and Anya Moorcroft have decided to get a divorce. Together, they've done it all. Two kids, three owned houses, four rented flats, fifty-something holidays, and one affair apiece. Now, after fifteen years...

Twenty-five-year-old Anthony Patch appears to have it all: a Harvard education, an apartment in New York City, memberships at all of the best clubs, and a generous trust fund to draw from. Sure, his grandfather is not happy with Anthony's lack of...

An unforgettable story of outrunning poverty through the power of stories and imagination.In a neglected part of town beset with social problems, from unemployment and crime to inequalities of health and education, a twelve-year-old girl sees an...

Daniel Zimmer will do almost anything to end his pain-except for the one thing that might work.Growing up in 1970s Brooklyn under the shadow of his tyrannical father and against the backdrop of the Son of Sam murders, the Karen Ann Quinlan tragedy, and...

From the acclaimed storyteller, a propulsive tale of desire, betrayal, duty, and infidelity-and the explosive consequences of a buried passionThe newsman in Luke Blackburn shuns the spotlight when he and his old friend, now the county mayor in Key West,...

Spanning generations and crossing continents, this is the sweeping story of one American family facing ordinary challenges amidst extraordinary events. Through every trial, they are continually drawn back to a single location, Crystal Lake. This family...

From Jennifer duBois, 'one of a handful of living American novelists who can comprehend both the long arc of history and the minute details that animate it' (Karan Mahajan) and 'a writer of thrilling psychological...

A marvellous debut novel exploring the fractures caused by the Partition of India, as well as the legacy and contemporary parallels of sectarian violence around the world.Lahore, British India. 1943. As World War rages, resentment of colonial rule grows,...

Bad New Age mother seeks miracle cure in Germany but encounters her past with an aloe plant instead.A mother abandons her family in California to pursue a miracle cure in Munich. Once she gets there however, she wonders if she might have already died...

New York Times bestselling author Susan Isaacs returns to a pair of her readers' favorite characters, former FBI agent Corie Geller and her retired cop dad, who must solve one of the NYPD's coldest homicide cases-before the crime's sole survivor is...

A grieving Hector Peterson and his estranged father Winston Telemacque arrive on the lush island of Dominica in 2017 to spread his mother's ashes when Hurricane Maria strikes. Amid the devastation, the fragile peace between father and son is tested as...