Sentences with phrase «novel about family history»
Lacking the melodramatic sizzle of its predecessor, this sophomore effort is a colorful but middling multilayered novel about family history, love, and redemption.»
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In this deeply introspective novel, Strout explores a writer's tenuous relationship with her mother, and on a deeper level about how we must inevitably wrestle with the histories of family and place that have formed us.
East Coast About Blog Dani Shapiro is the bestselling author of the memoirs Devotion and Slow Motion, and five novels including Black & White and Family History.
The second is with Kate McClelland of Perrot Memorial Library in Old Greenwich,... - davinamw Did reading this novel make you think about your own family history?
From one of Turkey's most acclaimed and outspoken writers, a novel about the tangled histories of two families.
But in her fourth novel, The Spy Lover (Thomas & Mercer), she pulls from her Alabama - born father's family history to tell a gripping Civil War story about three complicated, suffering people — a nurse who's spying for the Union behind enemy lines, a Chinese immigrant who escapes his conscription into the Confederacy to fight for the Union instead, and a wounded Confederate cavalryman.
For fans of The Secret History and The Poison Tree, a novel about a woman whose family and identity are threatened by the secrets of her past, from the New York Times bestselling author of She's Not There.
«A lovely novel about the search for family that also happens to illuminate a fascinating and forgotten chapter of American history.
The Orange Prize — winning author Kate Grenville recalls her family's history in an astounding novel about the pioneers of New South Wales.
Alternating between real and magic, past and present, friendship and romance, hope and despair, The Astonishing Color of After is a novel about finding oneself through family history, art, grief, and love.
Exceptionally moving, dramatic, and exquisitely rendered - a passionate novel about the extraordinary bond between two women, and the jealousies, loves, and family histories that threaten to tear them apart.
East Coast About Blog Dani Shapiro is the bestselling author of the memoirs Devotion and Slow Motion, and five novels including Black & White and Family History.