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• Age 16

  Fung, Rosena,

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  "A powerful coming-of-age graphic novel about three generations of mothers and daughters passing down and rebelling against standards of gender, race, beauty, size, and worth, for fans of Mariko Tamaki. Sixteen-year-old Roz is preoccupied with…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• All My Rage

  Tahir, Sabaa,

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  Lahore, Pakistan. Then. Misbah is a dreamer and storyteller, newly married to Toufiq in an arranged match. After their young life is shaken by tragedy, they come to the United States and open the Clouds' Rest Inn Motel, hoping for a new start.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Banyan Moon

  Thai, Thao,

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  "Three Vietnamese American women mourning the death of the family matriarch recount their lives and childhoods at a crumbling, gothic manor called Banyan House, where the secrets of her grandmother's past come to light"

• Compound Fracture

  White, Andrew Joseph,

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  A queer Appalachian thriller that pulls no punches--following a trans autistic teen who's drawn into the generational struggle between the rural poor and those who exploit them. On the night Miles Abernathy--sixteen-year-old socialist and proud West…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Covenant of Water

  Verghese, Abraham, 1955-

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  "From the New York Times-bestselling author of Cutting for Stone comes a stunning and magisterial epic of love, faith, and medicine, set in Kerala, South India, following three generations of a family seeking the answers to a strange secret. The…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Devil Three Times

  Fayne, Rickey,

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  "Yetunde awakens aboard a slave ship en route to the United States with the spirit of her dead sister as her only companion. Desperate to survive the hell that awaits her at their destination, Yetunde finds help in an unexpected form--the Devil…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The End of August

  Yū, Miri, 1968-

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  In 1930s Japanese-occupied Korea, Lee Woo-cheol was a running prodigy and a contender for the upcoming Tokyo Olympics. But he would have had to run under the Japanese flag. Nearly a century later, his granddaughter is living in Japan and training to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Everything We Never Had

  Ribay, Randy,

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  "Set in the 1930s to today, four generations of Filipino American boys grapple with identity, masculinity, and father-son relationships"

• Family Lore

  Acevedo, Elizabeth,

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  "Sisters Matilde, Pastora, Camila, and Flor thought they knew each other well, until Flor-inspired by a documentary her daughter Ona made her watch-decides she wants a living wake, a party to bring her family and community together and celebrate the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Grown Women

  Johnson, Sarai,

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  "A novel about four generations of Black women contending with motherhood and daughterhood, generational trauma and the deeply ingrained tensions and wounds that divide them as they redefine happiness and healing for themselves"

• Happy Land

  Perkins-Valdez, Dolen,

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  "A woman learns the astonishing truth of her family's ties to a real-life American kingdom in this transporting and riveting new novel from the New York Times bestselling, NAACP Award-winning author of Take My Hand. In the hills of Appalachia, there…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Homegoing

  Gyasi, Yaa,

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  "Two half sisters, Effia and Esi, unknown to each other, are born into two different tribal villages in 18th century Ghana. Effia will be married off to an English colonial, and will live in comfort in the sprawling, palatial rooms of Cape Coast…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hot Desk

  Dickerman, Laura,

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  In the post-pandemic publishing industry, two rival editors are forced to share a "hot desk" on different days of the week, much to their chagrin. Having never set eyes on each other, Rebecca Blume and Ben Heath begin leaving passive-aggressive…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The House of the Spirits

  Allende, Isabel,

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  A magnificent saga of proud and passionate men and women and the turbulent times through which they suffer and triumph. They are the Truebas. And theirs is a world you will not want to leave, and one you will not forget.

• The Joy Luck Club

  Tan, Amy,

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  In 1949, four Chinese women--drawn together by the shadow of their past--begin meeting in San Francisco to play mah jong, invest in stocks and "say" stories. They call their gathering the Joy Luck Club--and forge a relationship that binds them for…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Kindred

  Butler, Octavia E.,

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  Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• My Father, the Panda Killer

  Hoang, Jamie Jo,

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  "San Jose, 1999. Jane knows her Vietnamese dad can't control his temper. Lost in a stupid daydream, she forgot to pick up her seven-year-old brother, Paul, from school. Inside their home, she hands her dad the stick he hits her with. This is how…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• My Perfect Family

  VanBrakle, Khadijah,

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  "'Lonely Leena' is close with her young single mother. Still, she's always secretly dreamed of more (and, when she was a kid, asked Santa for it). A huge family to cheer her on at graduation. A gaggle of smiling faces at the holidays. But one call…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• North Woods

  Mason, Daniel (Daniel Philippe),

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  "When a pair of young lovers abscond from a Puritan colony, little do they know that their humble cabin in the woods will become the home of an extraordinary succession of human and nonhuman characters alike. An English soldier, destined for glory,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Old Drift

  Serpell, Namwali, 1980-

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  1904. On the banks of the Zambezi River, a few miles from the majestic Victoria Falls, there is a colonial settlement called The Old Drift. In a smoky room at the hotel across the river, an Old Drifter named Percy M. Clark, foggy with fever, makes a…Read moreRead more of this annotation