Wondering what to read next with your book club? Check out these recommendations filled with complicated family dynamics, the power of memory and loss, long-held secrets, and more intriguing topics for discussion!
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THE HOUSE OF DOORS BY TAN TWAN ENG
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“As in Tan’s other works, the narrative dwells on memory and loss, its lush, dreamy prose evoking the bygone days of colonial pre-WWII British Malaya amid musings on life’s ephemeral nature, while never losing its eye for injustice . . . This is a stunner.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review
WHERE THERE WAS FIRE BY JOHN MANUEL ARIAS
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“In Arias’s lush and ambitious debut, the women of a Costa Rican family wrestle with their resentments and secrets in the long shadow of a banana plantation…The novel is strongest capturing the complications of love and the parental struggle not to inflict the traumas they inherited on their children. It’s a rewarding outing from an exciting new voice with a prowess for lyricism.”—Publishers Weekly
ABOVE THE SALT BY KATHERINE VAZ
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“On the Portuguese island of Madeira, John Alves, son of a Presbyterian martyr, bonds with Mary Freitas, a botanist’s adopted daughter of suspect background, and they flee to the United States when enmity between Catholics and Protestants on their island boils over. Initially separated, they reconnect in Illinois, but unfortunately the Civil War looms.”—Library Journal Pre-Pub Alert
SONGS OF IRIE BY ASHA ASHANTI BROMFIELD
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“With this debut, about a volatile father-daughter relationship and discovering the ugly truths hidden beneath even the most beautiful facades, [Bromfield] is establishing herself as a promising writer . . . this is a must.”—Booklist, starred review
WHERE THERE WAS FIRE by John Manuel Arias; 9781250817389; 8/29/23
THE HOUSE OF DOORS by Tan Twan Eng; 9781639731930; 10/17/23
ABOVE THE SALT by Katherine Vaz; 9781250873811; 11/7/23
SONGS OF IRIE by Asha Ashanti Bromfield; 9781250846808; 10/10/23
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