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Fiction A to Z February 2019
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The Far Field: a novel
by Madhuri Vijay
After the death of her mother, Shalini, a privileged young woman from Bangalore, arrives in Kashmir to confront a man from her mother's past but instead is brought face to face with the city's violent politics, forcing her to make a series of difficult choices.
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The Forgotten Hours
by Katrin Schumann
Forced to confront her past when her father, who was accused of sexually molesting her best friend almost a decade earlier, is released from prison, 24-year-old Katie Gregory questions everything she believes about family, friends and herself when the truth is finally revealed.
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The Friend
by Sigrid Nunez
Becoming the guardian of her late best friend's enormous Great Dane, a grieving woman is evicted from her no-pets apartment and forges a deep bond with the equally distraught animal in ways that initially disturb her friends.
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The Peacock Feast
by Lisa Gornick
A century after eccentric glass genius Louis Tiffany dynamites his fantastical mansion, a neighbor whose young life was impacted by the explosion receives an unexpected visit from a great-grandniece who helps her make peace with a lifetime of difficult choices.
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Golden Child: a novel
by Claire Adam
Working exhausting hours in their rural Trinidad home, the family of a petroleum-plant worker is shattered by the disappearance of a troubled twin son whose fate forces his father to make a devastating choice.
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Good Riddance
by Elinor Lipman
Discarding her late mother's cherished and heavily annotated high school yearbook, Daphne is entangled in a series of absurdities when the yearbook is discovered by a busybody documentary filmmaker.
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The Last Romantics: a novel
by Tara Conklin
When the renowned poet Fiona Skinner is asked about the inspiration behind her iconic work, The Love Poem, she tells her audience a story about her family and a betrayal that reverberates through time.
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Late in the Day: a novel
by Tessa Hadley
When their close friend, Lydia, who is inconsolable after the death of her husband, Zach, moves in with them, Christine and Alex find love and sorrow giving way to anger and bitterness, warping their relationships as old entanglements and grievances arise from the past.
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When You Read This
by Mary Adkins
After his friend, Iris, dies from a terminal illness at age 33, PR genius Smith Simonyi teams up with Iris’ sister, Jade, to make Iris’ final request to get her blog posts published as a book a reality.
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Unmarriageable
by Soniah Kamal
A retelling of Pride and Prejudice, set in modern-day Pakistan, finds a practical-minded teacher from a family of sisters evaluating her resolve never to marry after encountering a brusque but compelling man during a series of lavish wedding parties.
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