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The Fiction Class

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This Time Tomorrow

Emma Straub · 310 pages

Caregiving for a ParentWriter ProtagonistCharacter-DrivenNew York City
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Still Alice

Lisa Genova · 320 pages

Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children and a house on the Cape, is a celebrated Harvard professor at the height of her career when she notices a forgetfulness creeping into her life. As confusion starts to cloud her thinking and her memory begins to fail her, she receives a devastating diagnosis: early onset Alzheimer's disease.

Caregiving for a ParentMother and DaughterWomen's FictionContemporary Fiction
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One True Thing

Anna Quindlen · 320 pages

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 euthanasia. By the author of Object Lessons.

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Winter Garden

Kristin Hannah · 448 pages

Can a woman ever really know herself if she doesn’t know her mother? From the author of the smash-hit bestseller Firefly Lane and True Colors comes a powerful, heartbreaking novel that illuminates the intricate mother-daughter bond and explores the enduring links between the present and the past. Meredith and Nina Whitson are as different as sisters can be. One stayed at home to raise her chil

Caregiving for a ParentMother and DaughterCharacter-DrivenContemporary Fiction
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I Like You Just Fine When You're Not Around

Ann Wertz Garvin · 287 pages

"While trying to handle their own changing careers and personal issues, two sisters face more crisis when their mother develops Alzheimer's and a new baby enters their lives"--

Caregiving for a ParentMother and DaughterWomen's FictionContemporary Fiction
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Home Safe

Elizabeth Berg

Writer ProtagonistMother and DaughterWomen's FictionCharacter-Driven
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The Echo of Old Books

Barbara Davis

A novel about the magical lure of books and summoning the courage to rewrite our stories by the Amazon Charts bestselling author of The Keeper of Happy Endings and The Last of the Moon Girls. Rare-book dealer Ashlyn Greer's affinity for books extends beyond the intoxicating scent of old paper, ink, and leather. She can feel the echoes of the books' previous owners--an emotional fingerprint only sh

Writer ProtagonistWomen's FictionCharacter-DrivenNew York City
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The Weird Sisters

Eleanor Brown · 320 pages

Unwillingly brought together to care for their ailing mother, three sisters who were named after famous Shakespearean characters discover that everything they have been avoiding may prove more worthwhile than expected.

Caregiving for a ParentWomen's FictionCharacter-DrivenContemporary Fiction
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Good in Bed

Jennifer Weiner · 376 pages

For twenty-eight years, things have been tripping along nicely for Cannie Shapiro. Sure, her mother has come charging out of the closet, and her father has long since dropped out of her world. But she loves her friends, her rat terrier, Nifkin, and her job as pop culture reporter for The Philadelphia Examiner. She's even made a tenuous peace with her plus-size body. But the day she opens up a n

Writer ProtagonistMother and DaughterCharacter-DrivenWomen's Fiction
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The Rom-Commers

Katherine Center · 309 pages

'A big hit of dopamine' EMILY GIFFIN *The instant New York Times bestseller!* **** She's rewriting his love story. But can she rewrite her own? Emma has big dreams, though she hasn't let herself think about them in years. Until her big break comes along: the chance to re-write a screenplay with her hero, Charlie-freaking-Yates! Even better: it's a rom-com - Emma's dream come true. Charlie is a Hol

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Girls in Trucks

Katie Crouch · 276 pages

Sarah Walters is a less-than-perfect debutante. She tries hard to follow the time-honored customs of the Charleston Camellia Society, as her mother and grandmother did, standing up straight in cotillion class and attending lectures about all the things that Camellias don't do. (Like ride with boys in pickup trucks.)But Sarah can't quite ignore the barbarism just beneath all that propriety, and as

Mother and DaughterWomen's FictionCharacter-DrivenNew York City
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The Wishing Jar

Penelope J. Stokes · 304 pages

Een weduwe die zorgt voor haar zieke moeder en strijdt met haar dwarse tienerdochter, verwacht dat een huwelijk met een hoogleraar haar leven makkelijker zal maken.

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The Hours

Michael Cunningham

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My Name Is Lucy Barton

Elizabeth Strout · 200 pages

"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 and a simple hospital visit becomes a portal to the most tender relationship of all--the one between mother and daughter"--

Writer ProtagonistMother and DaughterNew York CityContemporary Fiction
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Anybody Out There?

Marian Keyes · 592 pages

Life is perfect for Anna Walsh. She has the "Best Job in the World" as a PR exec for a top-selling urban beauty brand, a lovely apartment in New York, and a perfect husband - the love of her life, Aidan Maddox. Until the morning she wakes up in her mammy's living room in Dublin with stitches in her face, a dislocated knee, and completely smashed-up hands - and no memory of how she got there. While

New York CityMother and DaughterCharacter-DrivenWomen's Fiction
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The Worst Day Of My Life, So Far

M.A. Harper · 269 pages

"Takes us into the complex mind of Jeanne Roth, a middle-aged woman confronting the challenges of taking care of her mother Velma, who suffers with Alzheimer's. Resting in the shadow of her mother's undeniable beauty and Southern charm Jeanne realizes that heroes aren't born, they are made."--Jacket.

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Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

Rebecca Wells · 383 pages

The antics of a group of women in a small town where they were expected to raise babies, not Cain. The story is recounted by a mother to a daughter, the daughter thinking she is so much better because she got out of that town and is now a theater producer. The moral: mothers too were once rebels.

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The Ghostwriter

Julie Clark · 328 pages

Caregiving for a ParentWriter ProtagonistCharacter-DrivenContemporary Fiction
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On Hummingbird Wings

Lauraine Snelling

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The Bell Jar

Sylvia Plath · 258 pages

The Bell Jar is a classic of American literature, with over two million copies sold in this country. This extraordinary work chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, successful - but slowly going under, and maybe for the last time. Step by careful step, Sylvia Plath takes us with Esther through a painful month in New York as a contest-winning junior

Writer ProtagonistMother and DaughterNew York CityCharacter-Driven
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Homecoming

Kate Morton · 547 pages

Caregiving for a ParentWriter ProtagonistMother and DaughterContemporary Fiction
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Fangirl

Rainbow Rowell · 438 pages

Cath is a Simon Snow fan. Okay, the whole world is a Simon Snow fan... But for Cath, being a fan is her life—and she’s really good at it. She and her twin sister, Wren, ensconced themselves in the Simon Snow series when they were just kids; it’s what got them through their mother leaving. Reading. Rereading. Hanging out in Simon Snow forums, writing Simon Snow fan fiction, dressing up lik

Writer ProtagonistMother and DaughterCharacter-DrivenContemporary Fiction
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The Wishing Hill

Holly Robinson · 379 pages

Caregiving for a ParentMother and DaughterWomen's FictionContemporary Fiction
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A Window Opens

Elisabeth Egan · 370 pages

"Alice Pearse thought she would live happily ever after...then she realized she was in the wrong story...[and] realizes the question is not whether it's possible to have it all, but what does she--Alice Pearse--really want?"--

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