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• Memphis

  a Novel

  Stringfellow, Tara M.,

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  "Told over the course of 70 years, this spellbinding debut novel traces three generations of a Southern Black family and one daughter, who, channeling her rage into art, discovers with the power of her paint brush, she can change her family’s…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Arsonists' City

  Alyan, Hala, 1986-

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  "The scattered members of a Middle-Eastern clan unite at an ancestral home in Beirut to change a new patriarch's decision to sell the property, igniting revelations about their family's past in Lebanon, Syria and the United States."

• Banyan Moon

  a Novel

  Thai, Thao,

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  "Follows three generations of Vietnamese American women reeling from the death of their matriarch, revealing the family's inherited burdens, buried secrets and unlikely love stories."

• Happiness Falls

  a Novel

  Kim, Angie, 1969-

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  "Mia isn't initially concerned when her family fails to return from a walk, until her mute brother Eugene, who suffers from a rare genetic condition, returns bloody and alone and is unable to describe what happened to their father."

• Real Americans

  a Novel

  Khong, Rachel, 1985-

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  "In this intricately woven tapestry of class and striving, race and visibility, and family and inheritance, 15-year-old Nick Chen, who cannot shake the feeling his mother is hiding something, sets out to find his biological father--a journey that…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Swimming Back to Trout River

  Feng, Linda Rui, 1975-

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  "Set against the backdrop of China’s Cultural Revolution, this lyrical novel follows a father’s determination to reunite his family before his daughter Junie’s 12th birthday, even if it means bringing painful family secrets to light."

• Forgotten Country

  Chung, Catherine

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  "Learning on the night of her sister's birth that a daughter has been lost in every generation of her Korean family, Janie assumes a protective role over her sister while learning more cautionary stories from her optimistic father and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Boy, Snow, Bird

  a Novel

  Oyeyemi, Helen

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  "A reimagining of the Snow White story recast as a story of family secrets, race, beauty, and vanity set in the United States during the 1950s and 1960s."

• Moonglow

  a Novel

  Chabon, Michael

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  "A man bears witness to his grandfather's deathbed confessions, which reveal his family's long-buried history and his involvement in a mail-order novelty company, World War II, and the space program."