Sentences with phrase «multigenerational novel»
At the center of this multigenerational novel is Eileen Leary, who cares for her alcoholic mother, falls in love with an eccentric neuroscientist, raises a son and works a demanding nursing career before Alzheimer's threatens her husband — and her family's very fabric.
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Sly, funny, intelligent, and artfully structured, The Fortunes recasts American history through the lives of Chinese Americans and reimagines the multigenerational novel through the fractures of immigrant family experience.
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After several decades in education, publishing six novels, and leading a multigenerational women's ministry, Kelly still claims that her biggest accomplishment is homeschooling her children.
The Japanese Lover By Isabel Allende Atria • $ 16 • ISBN 9781501116995 A # 1 Library Reads pick when it was released in hardcover last fall, Allende's latest novel is a rich multigenerational epic with a tender love story at its heart.
Winner of the 2015 BookBrowse Debut Novel Award From a remarkable new voice in Southern fiction, a multigenerational saga of crime, family, and vengeance.
Said Booklist of the novel: Spanning centuries, Dilloway's intricate, multigenerational saga of repressive -LSB-...]
«The paradisiacal landscapes of Sri Lanka are as astonishing as the barbarity of its revolution, and Munaweera evokes the power of both in a lyrical debut novel worthy of shelving alongside her countryman Michael Ondaatje or her fellow writer of the multigenerational immigrant experience Jhumpa Lahiri.»