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• Mother-daughter Murder Night

  a Novel

  Simon, Nina,

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  "Nothing brings an estranged family together like a murder next door. High-powered businesswoman Lana Rubicon has a lot to be proud of: her keen intelligence, impeccable taste, and the L.A. real estate empire she's built. But when she finds herself…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• What We Lose

  a Novel

  Clemmons, Zinzi,

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  "Raised in Pennsylvania, Thandi views the world of her mother's childhood in Johannesburg as both impossibly distant and ever present. She is an outsider wherever she goes, caught between being black and white, American and not. She tries to connect…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• My Name Is Lucy Barton

  a Novel

  Strout, Elizabeth,

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  "Lucy Barton is recovering slowly from what should have been a simple operation. Her mother, to whom she hasn't spoken for many years, comes to see her. Gentle gossip about people from Lucy's childhood in Amgash, Illinois, seems to reconnect them,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Burnt Sugar

  Doshi, Avni, 1982-

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  "In her youth, Tara was wild. She abandoned her loveless marriage to join an ashram, endured a brief stint as a beggar (mostly to spite her affluent parents), and spent years chasing after a disheveled, homeless 'artist' - all with her young child…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Leaving Time

  a Novel

  Picoult, Jodi, 1966-

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  "For more than a decade, Jenna Metcalf has never stopped thinking about her mother, Alice, who mysteriously disappeared in the wake of a tragic accident. Refusing to believe she was abandoned, Jenna searches for her mother regularly online and pores…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The School for Good Mothers

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  Chan, Jessamine,

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  "Protagonist Frida Liu, a 39-year-old Chinese-American single mother in Philadelphia, loses custody of her 18-month-old daughter, Harriet, after she leaves Harriet home alone for two hours on one very bad day. To regain custody, Frida must spend a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Things I Wish I Told My Mother

  Patterson, Susan, 1957-

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  "A mother and daughter on vacation in Paris unpack a lifetime of secrets. Every daughter has her own distinctive voice, her inimitable style, and her secrets. Laurie is an artist who travels the world with a worn beige duffel bag. Every mother has…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Mother in the Dark

  Maiuri, Kayla,

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  "When Anna's sister calls with an urgent message, Anna doesn't return the call. She knows it's about their mother. Growing up in working class Boston in an Italian American family, Anna's childhood was sparse but comfortable-filled with homemade…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Everything I Never Told You

  Ng, Celeste,

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  "Lydia is the favorite child of Marilyn and James Lee; their middle daughter, a girl who inherited her mother's bright blue eyes and her father's jet-black hair. When Lydia's body is found in the local lake, the delicate balancing act that has been…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• One True Thing

  Quindlen, Anna

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  "A New York psychiatrist recounts her mother's death for which she was arrested. At the time, Dr. Ellen Gulden was accused of killing her mother with an overdose of morphine, a charge in part based on a high school essay in which she advocated…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Girl Returned

  Di Pietrantonio, Donatella,

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  "Without warning or explanation, a 13-year-old girl is taken from the family she has always thought of as her own and sent to live with strangers. This chaotic assortment of often hostile individuals whom she has never met is, she is told, her real…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• White Oleander

  Fitch, Janet

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  "The unforgettable story of a young woman's odyssey through a series of Los Angeles foster homes on her journey to redemption. Astrid is the only child of a single mother, Ingrid, a brilliant, obsessed poet who wields her luminous beauty to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Terms of Endearment

  McMurtry, Larry

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  "Aurora is the kind of woman who makes the whole world orbit around her, including a string of devoted suitors. Widowed and overprotective of her daughter, Aurora adapts at her own pace until life sends two enormous challenges her way: Emma’s hasty…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Beloved

  Morrison, Toni, 1931-2019

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  "Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. Sethe, its protagonist, was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Joy Luck Club

  Tan, Amy,

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  "For decades, a quartet of Chinese women who have emigrated to San Francisco gather to eat dim sum, play mahjong, and talk - they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. Over the years, their stories have informed the lives of four daughters who feel the…Read moreRead more of this annotation