Tag: family

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Nineteen Minutes

Jodi Picoult · 2007

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

Mansfield Park

Jane Austen · 1814

Fanny Price loves Edmund amid Crawfords theatricals at Mansfield.

2,389-word summary · 11 min read

Like Water for Chocolate

Laura Esquivel · 1989

Tita expresses forbidden love for Pedro through meals in revolutionary Mexico.

2,590-word summary · 12 min read

Klara and the Sun

Kazuo Ishiguro · 2021

Solar robot Klara loves Josie and bargains with the Sun to save her.

2,251-word summary · 10 min read

I'll Give You the Sun

Jandy Nelson · 2014

Twins Noah and Jude split after their mother's death, bound by art, guilt and first love.

2,260-word summary · 10 min read

Homegoing

Yaa Gyasi · 2016

Half sisters Effia and Esi lines span Ghana to America across centuries.

2,552-word summary · 11 min read

Hello Beautiful

Ann Napolitano · 2023

Four sisters in Chicago love, lose, and find each other again across thirty years.

2,144-word summary · 10 min read

Goodnight Moon

Margaret Wise Brown · 1947

A small bunny says goodnight to each object in the green room in this 1947 bedtime classic.

2,600-word summary · 12 min read

Apples Never Fall

Liane Moriarty · 2021

A retired tennis coach vanishes, and her four children rethink their family story.

2,315-word summary · 10 min read