Family life fiction Books

WINNER OF THE 2023 SCOTT MONCRIEFF PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 WARWICK PRIZE FOR WOMEN IN TRANSLATION Is it possible to make your own path in the world while upholding your family legacy? That's the question at the heart of this tender and poignant...

A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2023 One of CBC Books Best Books of 2023 100's Best Books of 2023 "To say Heighton is an immensely talented writer is true enough but insufficient ... As good a writer as Canada has ever produced." -National PostThe...

Winner of the 2023 City of Victoria Butler Book Prize An outrageously comic novel documents a middle-aged writer and mother's grappling with mid-life crisis-her husband's and her own.Preoccupied with her fledgling literary career, intent on the...

Finalist for the 2022 Governor General's Literary Award for TranslationWinner of the 2022 VMI Betsy Warland Between Genres AwardRemnants is an exploration of our relationships with family and perception, told through a profound investigation of a...

Megan Chernoff is a talented but unemployed copywriter in an identity crisis after the birth of her second child. Seeking a fresh start, she and her family move to New York City, where she meets Daphne Cole - a gorgeous, stylish, well-known mom fluencer...

*A 2022 FOREWORD REVIEWS BOOK AWARD FINALIST*A new novel by the award-winning author ofUnder the Mercy Trees. Famed puppeteer and master manipulator Walter Gray surprises his three daughters by announcing there is a fourth at his 80th birthday party.An...

Powerful Up Lit: Kim Hooper is a powerful presence in the "up lit" market, and Ways the World Could End is sure to appeal to her ever-growing fanbase. This moving novel captures the joys (and pains) of adolescence for both the teen and the parent. It is...

One of Tor Nightfire's "Horror Books We're Excited About in 2022"!"Lyons burnishes his reputation as a rising horror star . . . [and] keeps the pages flying with fast-paced chills."-Publishers Weekly(starred review) From the author of The Night Will...

"I love books about sisters, and I love The Hive, which has all the eccentricity and yearning of some of my favorite sister stories, like We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson and Sisters By a River by Barbara Comyns. From the very first...

"The well-drawn characters complement Margolis's wry observations on Manhattan life and the ups and downs of marriage and career." -PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY"Fans of Tom Wolfe and Jonathan Franzen will revel in this zesty tale of penthouse envy and dot-com...

A NATIONAL BESTSELLER AND FEATURE FILM STARRING HALLE BERRY AND JESSICA LANGE"Riveting...impossible to turn away from." -THE BOSTON GLOBE"Losing Isaiah pushes all the current cultural buttons...[Margolis] gets inside the head of every character." -THE...

I WANT TO BE is an engaging and motivational book for children of all ages designed to spark career interests and confirm the belief that you can be whatever you want to be! Parents and children will fall in love with this powerful book which focuses on...

Jack Landower is a 44-year-old accountant and math wiz who is stuck in a rut, with a dead-end job and a stagnant marriage. Plans for a low-key vasectomy weekend in Las Vegas are turned upside down when he wins free entry into the largest Texas Hold 'Em...

A newly married young couple decides to take a Detour in life, from fast-paced Chicago to a small town in central South Dakota. On a year-long journey, with a cast of unique characters, they come to discover one of the basic tenets of living: the more...

"You cannot control who falls in love with who... Love is the only uncontrollable factor." Adrian Bennett loves two women. Lilah Winston, the love of his life and Lorelei Anastasio, his childhood sweetheart. His obligation to both consumes his thoughts...

Author's vision on day to day life and 10 short stories are bought to life in this book with fictitious characters and eye-catching illustrations. Reading them will put you in a great mood. The book's main idea is to give inspiration, a boost of...

"On Second Base" asks the question, "Have you ever regretted the past choices you've made?" Rev. Paul Lombard has regrets in spades as he retreats to sit on second base at the ball field, thinking about the life he might be living had he chosen baseball...

Ivan and Phoebe otherwise known as the Revolution on Granite or the First Maidan and investigates the difficulties and absurdities of a society swiftly shifting from subjugation to revolution to post-Soviet rule.Married couple Ivan and Phoebe grapple...

Anne Garrta has come into the English-speaking world with high acclaim. Her book Sphinx (also translated by Emma Ramadan) is our best seller ever. She has big fans among LGBTQ+ readers, translation fans (of course), fans of experimental writing...

"...a dazzling portrait of a man who lives up to his name, and of those who love him. A wonderful novel." -Margot Livesey, author of The Boy in The FieldMirth chronicles the struggles of a writer, Harrison Mirth, a romantic man who writes about love and...

Down to the River is a family saga set in the late 1960s in Cambridge, Massachusetts against the backdrop of the Vietnam War. Twin brothers, Nash and Remi Potts, have grown up as entitled, Harvard-educated, golden boys, heirs to an old, but dwindling...

Following the shocking death of a teenage boy, Barrett and Amelia are moved to revisit the passing of their own daughter, Edi, which occurred in the same small town nearly a decade earlier. Amelia finds herself caring for the recently deceased boy's...

A novel about a marriage torn apart by a violent secret for fans of Lauren Groff's Fates and FuriesEmilia has it all: a rewarding career as a statistician, a wonderful husband, two healthy young sons, and a house in the countryside. But when a...

By the Colombian author of The Bitch, a 2020 National Book Award Finalist and PEN Awards Winner.Claudia is an impressionable eight-year-old girl, trying to understand the world through the eyes of the adults around her. But her hardworking father hardly...

By the author of the international bestseller Evening Is The Whole Day, this novel set in Malaysia will appeal to readers of Arundhati Roy and Kiran DesaiIn what was once a Scottish tea planter's mansion in the highlands of Peninsular Malaysia, all...

A young mother follows her partner to a rural community in West Jutland, Denmark, where he teaches at the local school for adult education. Isolated, she is forced to find her way in a bewildering community and in the inscrutable conversational forms of...

Cheng Gong and Li Jiaqi go way back. Both hailing from dysfunctional families, they grew up together in a Chinese provincial capital in the 1980s. Now, many years later, the childhood friends reunite and discover how much they still have in common. Both...

For fans of Marriage Story and Elena Ferrante's Days of AbandonmentTerri runs off with a lover, abandoning her children and her marriage of twenty-five years. Her husband, David, is left to take care of their two daughters, one of whom is...

2022 PEN Translation Award FINALISTIn this masterful novel, author Juli Zeh skillfully shifts away from the conventional tale of a middle-aged, middle-class father out for a New Year's Day bike ride to an unexpectedly dark, psychological family drama...

Babakar is an African doctor living alone until the child Anas comes into his life. Forced to abandon his solitude, he takes her to Haiti in search of her family.Babakar is a doctor living alone, with only the memories of his childhood in Mali. In his...

A thirty-five-year-old writer decides she wants to have children. Rounds of IVF treatments and several years later, she has two daughters and sits down to write this book. World's Best Mother is a sublime journey - through pregnancy, the mothering of...

LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2021In this honest, tender account of brotherly love, thirteen-year-old Brian is tasked with caring for his disabled older brotherThirteen-year-old Brian lives in a trailer on a forgotten patch of land with...

This international bestseller by French author Adeline Dieudonne is one girl's bitingly funny coming-of-age tale within a violent, savage family.At home there are four bedrooms: one for her, one for her little brother Sam, one for her parents, and one...

Beautiful, happy people? No. Outcasts, bullies, a bizarre murder, drama, mystery, a child's heartache? Yes.Lucy is the most popular girl in the local elementary school of an idyllic Dutch housing estate. When a bizarre crime rocks her world and sends her...

Flanders, 1915.David Verbocht, sentenced to death as a deserter, stands before thefiring squad and looks back on his short life. As a young man, David was sent awayby his parents, after a tragic accident in the family, to become a school teacher in...

Inventive, dreamy Gieles lives with his father and a flock of geese on a plane-spotters' campsite next to an airstrip. The surrounding landscape reclaimed from the sea, is as isolated as Gieles himself. The fourteen-year-old boy is longing for the...

"We and Me is a novel that will haunt me for a long time. Excellent and unforgettable." Herman Koch, author of The DinnerIn this spellbinding novel, which has been compared to the work of Jonathan Franzen, Dave Eggers and Jeffrey Eugenides, Saskia de...

Elisabeth is dying. Coco jumps at this chance to prove her love, and promptly moves in with her deteriorating mother. A venture that quickly sends both parties spiraling out of control. Alongside a supporting cast of ex-bosses, ex-husbands, and (soon to...

'You Have Me to Love is an intense and dramatic novel filled with meticulous use of detail and a forensic psychological accuracy. Its power comes from the fierce energy of the narrative structure, the way of handling silence and pain, and the ability to...

John Proctor, about to turn seventy, spies a disconsolate young man eyeing him from outside his remote studio window. Invited inside from the bitter cold and fed dinner, the visitor, who calls himself Eli, implies that he is no stranger to the man,...

The Rumpus Book Club Pick, May 2022Most Anticipated Books of 2022, The Rumpus16 Upcoming Books from Indie Presses You'll Love, BuzzFeedBest Books of the Summer, Powell's Saul doesn't get why he's misunderstood. At his high-tech day job, he hides in the...

John Weir, author of The Irreversible Decline of Eddie Socket, a defining novel of 1980s New York in its response to the global AIDS crisis, has written a story collection that chronicles the long aftermath of epidemic death, as recorded in the...

Over a five-year period, Martha Johnson murders her four children, one by one, in order to punish her husband when they argue, but Martha is no ordinary serial killer. She murders her children by using the bulk of her 250-pound body to suffocate them...

When his father leaves town, twelve-year-old Rodney Culver's mother takes up with Otis Dell, a fry cook at the local diner--and a well-known petty thief. While Rodney resists the man's influence at first, Otis soon draws the boy into his small-time...

Banaras, Varanasi, Kashi: India's holy city on the banks of the Ganges has many names but holds one ultimate promise for Hindus. It is the place where pilgrims come for a good death, to be released from the cycle of reincarnation by purifying fire. As...

The magnum opus from Alejandro Jodorowsky-director of The Holy Mountain, star of Jodorowsky's Dune, spiritual guru behind Psychomagic and The Way of Tarot, innovator behind classic comics The Incal and Metabarons, and legend of Latin American literature...

From the author of Nightwood, Djuna Barnes has written a book that is all that she was, and must still be vulgar, beautiful, defiant, witty, poetic, and a little mad.Told as through a kaleidoscope, the chronicle of the Ryder family is a bawdy tale of...

Some families you are born into. Some you choose. And some choose you.Four women have little in common other than where they live and the joyous complications of having sisters. Cindy waits for her own life to begin as she sees her sister going in and...