domestic fiction

June Chu has resigned herself to being the "just good enough" girl--just good enough to get third place trophies and secret kisses from Rhys, her AP Bio partner, but not good enough to live up to the achievements of her seeming perfect older sister or her strict mother's expectations. Refusing to try too hard to get a full-ride scholarship, knowing she will fail anyway, June sets all her energy on getting Rhys to officially say they are in a relationship. Her plans go very wrong, and instead June flings herself into a new relationship, where the lines between love and sex are blurred and the pressure to plan out her future threatens to explode.

During an evening at her local bar, Emma's life changes forever. She divorced her husband Lucas nine months ago, and now her acquaintances at the bar reminisce about him. As the night goes on, Emma realizes things about her past that now haunt her, cause her to reflect on how she arrived at that moment, and force her to consider where she will go from there.

Raised by a single mother, Miraflores discovers as an adult that her father is still alive. She travels to Panama to meet him and discover more about her heritage and identity.

In a Philadelphia neighborhood, a young woman named Kacey struggles with addiction, while her sister Mickey works as a cop. The two don't speak and the police department doesn't know they are related. However, when Kacey disappears, Mickey panics and risks her job, and the welfare of her young son, to find Kacey before it's too late.

Ethan Frome, a poor farmer in nineteenth-century Starkfield, Massachusetts, sets off a devastating chain of events when he falls in love with the vivacious Mattie, cousin of his sickly, demanding wife.

Ten-year-old India Opal Buloni describes her first summer in the town of Naomi, Florida, and all the good things that happen to her because of her big ugly dog Winn-Dixie.

Ruth Devon, a former college basketball star, has a successful career calling games on the radio. She and her ex-husband are famous in sports media. When he retires from announcing NBA games, Ruth, who is currently reporting from the sidelines of the NBA Finals, decides to go for his job and possibly become the first woman to call NBA games on national television. Then Ruth makes a discovery that changes everything and forces her to chose between her career in sports broadcasting and motherhood.

Thirty-five-year-old Hazel walks out of her marriage to the powerful CEO of Gogol Industries--a monolithic corporation with questionable motives and unlimited resources--after her husband, Byron, demands she wear a microchip in her brain that will link the two permanently in the first ever mind-meld. As a response, Hazel moves in with her oddball father and his lifelike sex doll and tries to carve out a new life for herself away from the secure compound she came from and amongst a community of misfits. But Byron doesn't take her leaving lightly and will do anything it takes to get her back.

After giving up her dreams of becoming a professional photographer, high school senior Kenzie Reed tries to appease her parents by taking an interest in the family optometry business and making up a fake boyfriend named Jacob Miller. She learns on their family's trip to Hawaii that her parents have invited her "boyfriend" Jacob along. Playing along with the ruse, Kenzie gets to know the stranger they've invited while exploring the sights and allure of Hawaii, soon realizing their lie may be true love.

It's summertime, and Greg Heffley is heading to the beach for vacation with his family, but Greg quickly finds himself caught in the middle as the two halves of his extended family come together in a tiny beach house in the sweltering heat. The secret ingredients behind Gramma's famous meatballs have been closely guarded for years, and Greg hopes she will pass it on before she passes away. But tensions soon start to rise between family members, and Greg worries he's only going to stir the pot.