domestic fiction

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domestic fiction

Revival season

a novel
Fifteen-year-old Miriam Horton, the daughter of a famous Baptist minister, joins her family on the road every year for a series of revival meetings that her father holds where he heals desperate people. One season Miriam sees an act of violence. When the family returns home, Miriam discovers she can heal as well--even though her father and the church say a woman isn't able to heal. Now Miriam must decide between her family, her religion, and her power that could save others but destroy her.

Bee season

a novel
Eliza Naumann is used to being the unremarkable member of her family, but when she wins a series of spelling bees, her once distant family begins to lavish praise on her, bringing about surprising complications.

Sal & Gabi fix the universe

After altering the universe in order to help their families, best friends Sal and Gabi find themselves working together to fix the damage they have done.

Unless

2006
Reta's happy life is torn apart when her eldest daughter drops out of school to sit on a street corner, silent but for the sign around her neck that reads "goodness" and as Reta searches to find what drove her daughter to such a desperate statement, she learns important lessons about love and hope.

You should have known

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.

Safe Harbour

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.

Night came with many stars

a novel
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.

What's mine and yours

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.

Of women and salt

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.

Kim Jiyoung, born 1982 =

Palsip yi nyeon saeng Kim Jiyeong
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.

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