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And the Mountains Echoed
When Abdullah and Pari are split in 1952 Afghanistan, their parting echoes across decades from Kabul to Paris to California in linked stories of loss and…
2,572-word summary · 11 min read
drama + family
8 books tagged both “drama” and “family”.
Nineteen Minutes
Sterling High student Peter Haddon commits a school shooting and lawyer Jordan McAfee defends him while Josie Cormier hides truth.
2,267-word summary · 10 min read
Still Alice
Harvard professor Alice Howland faces early onset Alzheimer's and her family must adapt as memory fades.
2,477-word summary · 11 min read
The Light Between Oceans
Lighthouse keeper Tom Sherbourne and Isabel raise a boat baby on Janus Rock and face her true mother on shore.
2,818-word summary · 13 min read
Dear John
A soldier and a student trade letters through war until duty and waiting pull them apart.
2,138-word summary · 10 min read
The Memory Keeper's Daughter
On a snowy night a doctor gives away his newborn daughter and tells his wife she died.
2,154-word summary · 10 min read
The Lovely Bones
Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones retold: Susie watches from above as her family hunts her killer.
2,257-word summary · 10 min read
It Ends with Us
It Ends with Us from Lily's flower shop to her marriage: alternating past and present, Ryle's cycles of violence, and why the ending refuses a clean romantic…
2,381-word summary · 11 min read