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| The Satisfaction Café by Kathy WangHaving left Taiwan in the 1970s to attend Stanford graduate school, Joan marries a fellow student, but that lasts mere weeks. She stays in California, unexpectedly drawn to a wealthy, thrice-divorced older man. They marry, and in this quietly powerful portrait, Joan becomes a stepmother, a mother, a widow, and the owner of café designed to combat loneliness. For fans of: The Healing Season of Pottery by Yeon Somin; Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop by Hwang Bo-Reum. |
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Tilda is Visible
by Jane Tara
When Tilda Finch begins to physically disappear, a mysterious condition affecting millions of women over forty, she joins a support group and, with the help of a controversial therapist and a new relationship, learns to confront her inner struggles and reclaim her self-worth.
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The Float Test
by Lynn Steger Strong
The Kenner siblings are at odds. Jenn is a harried mom struggling under the weight of family obligations. Fred is a novelist who can’t write, maybe because she’s lost faith in storytelling itself. Jude is a recovering corporate lawyer with her own story to tell, and a grudge against her former favorite sister, Fred. George, the baby, is estranged from his wife and harboring both a secret about his former employer and an ill-advised crush on one of his sisters’ friends. Gathered after a major loss, each sibling needs the others more than ever -- if only they could trust each other. Over the course of a sweltering Florida summer, the Kenner siblings will revisit what it means to be a family.
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Mỹ Documents
by Kevin Nguyen
A series of violent, senseless attacks across America creates a panic prompting the American government to force Vietnamese Americans into internment camps, and siblings Jen and Duncan Nguyen are held with their mother at Camp Tacoma while older cousins Ursula and Alvin are given exemptions. Cut off entirely from the outside world, Jen and Duncan are forced to work jobs they hate and acclimate to life without the internet -- until Jen discovers a way to get messages to the outside.
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She's a Lamb!
by Meredith Hambrock
Jessamyn St. Germain is meant to be a star. Not an actor who occasionally books yogurt commercials and certainly not a lowly usher at one of Vancouver's smallest regional theaters. No, she is bound for greatness, and that's why the part of Maria in the theater's upcoming production of The Sound of Music is hers. Or it's going to be. Jessamyn may have been relegated to the position of childminder for the little brats playing the von Trapp children, but it's so obvious she's there for a different reason -- the director wants her close to the role so when Samantha, the lead, inevitably fails, Jessamyn will be there to take her place in the spotlight. This must be it. Because if it isn't, well, then every skipped meal, every brutal rehearsal, every inch won against a man attempting to drag her down will have all been for nothing.
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Fun for the Whole Family
by Jennifer E. Smith
With a workaholic father and a mother who only shows up for annual road trips, the four Endicott kids grow extraordinarily close. Now adults and estranged from each other, they reunite at the behest of their Academy Award nominee sister in a small North Dakota town, where they're soon snowed in. Covering numerous years and locations, this moving character-driven novel is full of heart. Read-alike: Long After We Are Gone by Terah Shelton Harris.
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Counting Backwards
by Binnie Kirshenbaum
Leo, a New York City medical researcher and professor, is diagnosed with Lewy body dementia at 53, shattering his world and leaving his wife, collage artist Addie, balancing caregiving, work, grief, and her own mental health. Told primarily in second person by Addie, this darkly funny novel examines marriage, memory, loss, and loneliness. Read-alikes: Still Alice by Lisa Genova; This Is a Love Story by Jessica Soffer.
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The Conditions of Will
by Jessa Hastings
When estranged savant Georgia returns to South Carolina for her father's funeral, she finds he left a significant property to someone her family has never heard of. Georgia is determined to uncover the story...
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I See You've Called in Dead
by John Kenney
Bud Stanley, an obituary writer, is afraid to live. His wife left him for a more interesting man, he endures a terrible blind date, and drunkenly publishes his own obituary. The newspaper wants to fire him, but the system lists him as dead, preventing his termination. This fallout forces Bud to reconsider life. Awaiting his fate at work, he's given another chance by his boss and, with encouragement from his friend Tim, starts attending strangers' wakes and funerals to learn how to live.
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The First Wish of Mr. Murray McBride
by Joe Siple
The day before Murray McBride moves Jenny, his beloved wife of eighty years, into a memory care center, she convinces him to search for a case her grandfather buried long ago, said to contain “a treasure worth more than gold.” With the help of some new friends, Murray and Jenny retrace their steps from years before. Over the course of the day, Murray tenderly retells their love story—how they met, the challenges they faced and overcame, and their initial attempt at the quest. But the closer they get to the treasure, the more clearly Murray remembers why they abandoned the search the first time. With the exhilarating discovery at hand, Murray must decide whether to unearth the treasure, even if it means bringing up painful events from the past.
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The Page Turner
by Viola Shipman
A young romance writer makes a discovery that throws her elitist family into chaos in this sharp, witty and entirely delightful family drama.
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Home of the American Circus
by Allie Larkin
After an emergency leaves her short on rent, thirty-year-old Freya Arnalds bails on her lackluster life as bartender in Maine and returns to her suburban hometown of Somers, New York, to live in the house she inherited from her estranged parents. Despite attempts to lay low, Freya encounters childhood friends, familial enemies, and old flames -- as well as her fifteen-year-old niece, Aubrey, who is secretly living in the derelict home. As they reconnect, Freya and Aubrey lean on each other, working to restore the house and come to terms with the devastating events that pulled them apart years ago.
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Favorite Daughter
by Morgan Dick
When estranged half-sisters, Mickey and Arlo, unknowingly connect as therapist and patient due to their late father's manipulative will, secrets unravel, tensions ignite and they face a collision course that could either destroy or heal their fractured lives.
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My Friends
by Fredrik Backman
Most people don’t even notice them -- three tiny figures sitting at the end of a long pier in the corner of one of the most famous paintings in the world. But eighteen-year-old Louisa, an aspiring artist herself, knows otherwise, and she is determined to find out the story of these three enigmatic figures. Twenty-five years earlier, in a distant seaside town, a group of teenagers find refuge from their bruising home lives by spending long summer days on an abandoned pier, telling silly jokes, sharing secrets, and committing small acts of rebellion. Louisa embarks on a surprise-filled cross-country journey to learn how the painting came to be and to decide what to do with it.
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Michael Without Apology
by Catherine Ryan Hyde
Scarred by a childhood fireworks accident and placed in foster care, Michael Woodbine has spent years hiding the physical and emotional aftermath. Now a college freshman, he avoids vulnerability -- until a film class introduces him to Robert Dunning, a teacher who embraces his own scars. Encouraged to make a documentary on body image, Michael invites people who feel rejected by society to share their stories -- and discovers he’s not alone. As he collects their experiences and finally tells his own, Michael begins to feel a sense of connection and belonging. But one question still haunts him: why didn’t his birth parents fight to keep him?
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Contact your librarian for more great books!
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Côte Saint-Luc Public Library
5851 Cavendish Blvd.
Côte Saint-Luc, Quebec H4W 2X8
514-485-6900csllibrary.org/ |
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