domestic fiction

A young man born of Indian parents in America struggles with issues of identity from his teens to his thirties.

High school teacher Tom Guthrie, abandoned by his wife and left to raise his two young sons alone, becomes involved in the lives of a pregnant, homeless teenager and two crusty, bachelor farmers.

Follows an African-American family as they migrate from the South to New York after their father is falsely accused of stealing money from his boss.

After her parent's divorce, Lizzy and her mother move to upstate New York to live with Lizzy's grandparents, and Lizzy tries to adjust not only to a new city, but to the physical and emotional changes she is experiencing.

Follows the story of five members of one family who feel the lasting effects of a teen pregnancy between Iris and her lover Aubrey, and Iris' decision to leave the child, Melody to be raised by Aubrey and her parents Sabe and Po'Boy so that she can further her education and career.

Jo is the tomboy bookish one while Bethie is the feminine good girl, but together they have the perfect life as sisters growing up in 1950s Detroit. However, as they grow up, their lives unfold much differently than they ever could have guessed against the backdrop of America's struggles and major events in the following decades--Vietnam, Woodstock, the women's liberation movement--turning Bethie into the hippie wild child and Jo into a proper young mother. Somewhere along the way, both sisters begin to realize they have taken a wrong turn.

Yolanda Garcia finds success with her first novel in which she made characters out of her family members and friends, but her "fictionally victimized" relatives exact revenge by telling all they know about the author, Yo.

Presents Louisa May Alcott's classic novel "Little Women" about the struggles and triumphs of the March family in New England during the Civil War.

Follows teenagers Natasha and Daniel over the course of a single day in New York City. Natasha's family, undocumented immigrants from Jamaica, faces deportation because of her father's drunk driving arrest. Daniel, under pressure from his South Korean parents, is preparing for an interview for a spot at Yale. When the two strangers meet, Daniel convinces Natasha to join him for the day, changing the course of their lives forever.

The lives of twelve-year-old Lou and her younger brother, Oz, change forever in 1940 when an accident involving their parents results in their being uprooted from their New York City home and moved to live with their great-grandmother in the mountains of Virginia.