Family life fiction Books

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...

Longlisted for the 2023 Republic of Consciousness US and Canada Prize An Oprah Daily Best Book of 2023 One of the Globe and Mail's Most Anticipated Titles of 2023 Listed in CBC Books Fiction to Read in Fall 2023 A 49th Shelf Fall Book To Put On Your List...

Abandoned by her husband, marooned by an epic snowstorm, a mother gives birth to her third child. Her sense of entrapment turns into a desperate rage in this unblinking portrait of a woman whose powerlessness becomes lethal.Lojman tells, on its surface,...

Tulsi Gurung arrives in Pennsylvania on a day so impossiblydamp and gray he wonders if he's landed on the underside of the world. He issixteen and brimming with wonder and fear. Born and raised in Refugee CampGoldhap, Tulsi is technically a refugee from...

Winner of the Oregon Book Award for Fiction.Kesha Ajs-Fisher'sNo God Like the Mother follows characters in transition, through tribulation and hope. Set around the world--the bustling streets of Lagos, the arid gardens beside the Red Sea, an apartment in...

Onefateful encounter upends the lives of two women in this tensedomestic thriller, a modern spin on Alfred Hitchcock'sStrangers On A Trainthat flips the script on race and gender politics."I'm a big believer that women should help each other, Tasha," she...

For readers of Isabel Allende, Gabriela Garcia, and Julia Alvarez, the story of a woman who must fight for her love and her child in a Cuba suffocated by oppressionA free spirit who spends time near the port of Havana, where her friend Osiris is known as...

For readers of Marilynne Robinson, Elizabeth Strout, and Katie Kitamura, the indelible journey of a quiet young woman-the "silent person" in the Seder-finding her way. Hailed as "radiant and transporting" (Margot Livesey), The Promise of a Normal Life is...

The Pain Eater is the story of two brothers from Michigan reunited after the death of their father.They've never been close, but now they have to live together-and it gets more difficult when one discovers a strange creature, vomited from the body of a...

In his debut collection, Marston Hefner brings a unique voice and playful style to meditations on self-acceptance, the folly of youth, and how love can lead to actualization and destruction.Through moments of family intimacy, work presentations,...

How do you stay alive when everybody wants you dead? The Devil Hound, set in mid-eighteen century Europe and the Americas, as an evil priest dedicates his life to destroying two innocent Romani (Gypsy) brothers because of their ethnic origin and because...

Fresh out of prison and looking to make amends to his son, Tommy Turner finds himself tangled up with a New Orleans mafia boss hellbent on revenge and a past that just won't leave him be.After a two-year stint in Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola...

A redemption story of family, faith, and forgiveness in small-town Louisiana.After a lifetime of abuse and loss, sixty-one-year-old Vernon Davidson is ready to get back at God, his coworkers, and everyone else in his northern Louisiana hometown. To numb...

A novel of one family, a century of war, and the promise of homecoming from Dayton Literary Peace Prize winner and National Book Award finalist Andrew KrivakRooted in the small, mountain town of Dardan, Pennsylvania, where patriarch Jozef Vinich settled...

The last place Angelina Moltisanti ever wants to go is home. She barely escaped life under the roof, and the thumb, of her violent but charismatic father, Jack. Yet home is exactly where she ends up after an SUV plows into her car just weeks after she...

2023 VCU Cabell First Novelist Award Long List2023 Book of the Year, Southern Literary ReviewNamed a 2023 Great Group read, Women's National Book AssociationA South Carolina family endures one life-shattering day in 1961 in a town that lies in the shadow...

There are not a plethora of novels set in Northeastern Arkansas and the bootheel of Missouri, but Pope's debut novel explores this beautiful and sparsely populated country, full of cotton fields and tiny towns-and is all the richer for the author's...

It's the late 1960s in McKinney, Texas. At the downtown theater and the local drive-in, movies-James Bond, My Fair Lady, Alfie, and Dr. Zhivago-feed the dreams and obsessions of a ten-year-old Clarke who loves Audrey, Elvis, his family, and the handsome...

From Tiffanie DeBartolo, author of God Shaped Hole, How to Kill a Rock Star, and Grace: The Jeff Buckley Story, comes Sorrow, a poignant story about friendship and love, art and music, and how these pursuits can save us from ourselves. Joe Harper has...

Who would you be without your memory? When Katherine Keene is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, her four grown children must grapple with how to care for her - and how to remake their relationships with each other. And then there's the secret that...

Dick, a blunt and bawdy Philly sports fan, finds himself in an assisted living facility following a stroke. Determined to regain his independence, he does daily laps around the grounds with his quad cane. But when recovery never comes, and days swell...

Amidst the teeming tenements of 1970s Bombay (Mumbai), a hungry teenage boy struggles through life in a poverty-stricken family ruled by a domineering alcoholic father, when suddenly he faces another challenge: the affections of an upper middle-class...

Alan and Audrey Taylor are an ordinary married couple raising three children and coping with the demands of busy careers when the unthinkable happens: their eldest daughter, Isabel, on the verge of precocious womanhood, goes missing in the middle of the...

A writer about to give birth investigates the story behind a mother she knows who has just killed her own twins.A mother kills her twins. Another woman, the narrator of this story, is about to give birth. She is a writer, and she realises that she knows...

Written by widely acclaimed author. Auur Jnsdttir has won the Icelandic Literary Prize, the Icelandic Women's Literature Prize, and others, in addition to being the granddaughter of perhaps the most famous Icelandic writer, Halldor Laxness. Hailed as...

A stunning novel about growing up in Russia on the brink of collapse, from the preeminent storyteller of his generation From the critically acclaimed author of Oblivion comes Year of the Comet, a story of a Russian boyhood and...

A pulpy tale of mismatched twins struggling to embody the perfect woman: "Effortlessly cool and slyly spiky, Despentes probes the dynamics of fame, beauty, and female competition, putting her finger on the pulse of what it's like to wear the daily drag...

"Intense and bravely uncompromising. An adult study of pain, thwarted affection, and guarded privacies in a world at the edge of violent public breakdown. An impressive achievement." -DAVID MALOUF, author of Ransom: A Novel and The Happy Life: The Search...

Think you know your neighbors? Think again.When actress Allison Langley leaves her former rockstar husband in the middle of the night, her sudden departure becomes the talk of upmarket Oak Hill. But the relentless gossip comes to an abrupt halt when...

A teacher asked me a question, and I opened my mouth as a sort of formality but closed it softly, knowing with perfect certainty that nothing would ever come out again.Ruby gives up talking at a young age. Her mother isn't always there to notice; she...

Elisa Victoria's first foray in the English language with a novel which uncovers nine-year-old Marina's internal struggles, during the long dry spell in 1993.Amid the oppressive heat, and in the aftermath of the exuberance of Seville's...

* At once a crime drama and a multigenerational family saga, KEEPING THE HOUSE is a debut that establishes Cin as one of the most exciting new writers to emerge in some time.* Tice Cin's prose is vivid and propulsive and fully immerses the reader into...

A love story in the slow lane, a road novel from Stoke-on-Trent to Wales, a stolen caravan, and a salesman who kidnaps the love of his life - this is a journey of self-discovery for an odd couple of 60-somethings: childhood sweethearts reunited in later...

A woman keeps her daughters safe in the wake of war and political trauma in Central and Latin AmericaThrough war and its aftermaths, a woman fights to keep her daughters safe. Like peasants through the ages, she desperately slashes and burns in order to...

'Beautifully written, poetic and haunting... Joanne Graham is a great talent.' --Louise Douglas'A clever, twisty, taut thriller...' --If These Books Could TalkSarah Phillips longs for the simple life - a job to fill her days, a home to return to and a...

When Wren Irving's numbers come up in the first ever national lottery draw, she doesn't tell her husband, Rob. Instead she quietly packs her bags, kisses her six-month-old daughter Phoebe goodbye, and leaves. Two decades later, Rob has moved on and found...

Following the breakdown of her marriage, in desperation Beth Swann uses a donor bank in her hometown of Liverpool to start her family. 18 years later, her daughter, Julia, increasingly intrigued by the identity of her biological father, goes against her...

"Lara" is a powerful semi-autobiographical novel-in-verse based on Bernardine Evaristo's own childhood and family history. The eponymous Lara is a mixed-race girl raised in Woolwich, a white suburb of London, during the 60s and 70s. Her father, Taiwo, is...

Part of the Legend Classics seriesWhile their father is away at war, times are tough and the money tight for the four March sisters and their mother. Meanwhile beautiful Meg, tomboy Jo, sweet Beth and precocious Amy also have to struggle with being...

On Yorkshire's gradually-crumbling mud cliffs sits an Edwardian seaside house. In the bathroom, Jacob and Ella hide from their parents' passionate arguments by playing the "Underwater Breathing" game-until the day Jacob wakes to find his mother and...

CBC BOOKS WORKS OF CANADIAN FICTION TO READ IN THE FIRST HALF OF 202349th SHELF EDITORS' PICK FOR JUNE 2023 When a family is forced to return to the mother's childhood home, she seeks meaning in her ancestral roots and the violent beauty of the natural...

Callie Dressler thought she'd put her past where it belonged - behind her. But when her ex-boyfriend brings their breakup to the big screen, she can no longer deny that their history has been looming over her all along.At thirty-one, Callie Dressler is...

Never trust other people's memories, and watch out for your own He knows he wept, but he cannot recollect a single other detail. Tormented by the tragedy, Sean relives the horror over and over again. As he struggles to recall what really happened, his...

The enemy of my enemy is my sisterCareer criminal Vic Doloro isn't the kind of guy you'd send a card to on Father's Day. Layla Shawn never has. She's spent most of her thirty-two years estranged from her father and haunted by the mysterious death of her...

This rich, raw and urgent debut novel is a domestic noir of sex and survival set in Trinidad's capital.Alethea Lopez is about to turn 40. A fashionable, mixed-race boutique manager who lives and works in Trinidad's capital city, Port of Spain, she is...

Permafrost's no-bullshit lesbian narrator is an uninhibited lover and a wickedly funny observer of modern life. Desperate to get out of Barcelona, she goes to Brussels, 'because a city whose symbol is a little boy pissing was a city I...