domestic fiction

Marriage counselor Grace Reinhart Sachs is living the perfect life and writing a book called "You Should Have Known" that urges women to listen to their intuition about men. But when a young woman Grace knows is murdered, and Grace's husband goes missing, Grace is forced to rethink everything she has ever known and recreate her life.

After living with her mentally ill father on their sailboat upon the death of her mother, fourteen-year-old Harbour is abandoned to live on her own until his promised return. Harbour, camped out in a ravine, realizes he's not coming back when summer turns to fall and her credit card is declined. She befriends another homeless teen and is forced to navigate the streets of Toronto and the shelter system, until an aunt who has been searching for her for years, finally finds her.

Follows three generations of a rural Kentucky family as they are saved by the kindness of others amidst the hardships of their lives, beginning with a thirteen-year-old girl living in Depression-era Kentucky, who is sold to another man by her father during a poker game, down to her grandson Samuel, whose eye was injured when he was young and who is trying to find meaning in his adult life.

Recounts the experiences of two families--Gee, a black teenager and his mother Jade, and Noelle, a half-white, half-Hispanic teenager and her mother Lacey May--whose lives intersect when a referendum passes allowing black students to be bussed to a predominantly white North Carolina high school.

After agreeing to to take in the daughter of a neighbor detained by ICE, Jeanette is motivated to learn about her family history from her secretive mother, Carmen, a Cuban immigrant. When Jeanette decides to go to Cuba to visit her grandmother, her world will never be the same as she learns about the secrets of her family's past generations.

Thirty-something "millennial everywoman" Kim Jiyoung leaves her white-collar desk job to fulfill the South Korean expectation that she will focus on being a mother to her newborn daughter, full-time. It isn't long before Jiyoung exhibits an alarming species of psychosis--she begins speaking in perfect impersonations of the voices of other women, living and dead. Her husband demands she goes to see a male psychologist, and there, in the male dominated world, Jiyoung lets out her grievances, from her childhood till now.

Anvar Faris, a young man originally from Pakistan, and Safwa, a young woman from Iraq, are both Muslims who don't feel much connection to their faith. When both of them move the United States, their feelings of uncertainty grow, and when they cross paths in the mid-2010s, their lives will never be the same.

When thirteen-year-old Ellie's Grandpa Melvin, a world-renowned scientist in the body of a fourteen-year-old boy, comes for an extended visit, he teaches her that experimenting--and failing--is part of life.

Raised by a mother who has had five husbands, eighteen-year-old Remy believes in short-term, no-commitment relationships until she meets Dexter, a rock band musician.

Deza Malone, the smartest girl in her class in Gary, Indiana, accompanies her mother and older brother on a trip to find her father, an African American man who left to find work after the Great Depression hit. They end up in a Hooverville outside of Flint, Michigan, and her brother attempts to be a performer while Deza and her mother search for a home.