domestic fiction

Two Cuban sisters--one a master electrician in Havana, the other a successful cosmetics saleswoman in Miami--are reunited after a thirty-year separation and learn the truth behind their mother's tragic death at the hands of their father years earlier.

China Redd, an African-American woman who worked at the Roseberry plantation for forty-seven years, sets the record straight about what really went on between the white families and their slaves and servants throughout the hundred-year history of the house.

A widow soon to lose her ranch in the Nebraska Sandhills is faced with questions about family and the future when her sixteen-year-old pregnant granddaughter arrives from the city for the summer.

Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway, occupied with the last-minute details of party preparation, finds her thoughts on a very different route through the past.

A schoolboy playing truant bumps into his revered father coming out of a cinema with a woman.

Tells the story about a headstrong man who rises to become the richest corn merchant and chief citizen in his town. Despite his great wealth and power, however, the man can not forget his past.

Indie Brown, living an idyllic life with her partner in rural Maine, is drawn back into the nightmare of her childhood when she is summoned home to Arizona to help her sister deal with their mother's strange illness.

Tells the story of Rose Mannion, an Irish woman transplanted in western Kentucky, showing how her legacy of love and betrayal affected succeeding generations of her family.

The story of five generations of an African-American family and the wedding on Martha's Vineyard that could tear them apart.

George Amberson Minafer, the spoiled and arrogant grandson of the founder of the Amberson family fortune, sets the wealthy society clan on the path to financial ruin in the late nineteenth century.