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10 best books like Larry's Party (Carol Shields): The Idea of Perfection, Away, Mercy Among the Children, The Jade Peony, Fugitive Pieces, A Spell of Winter, The Road Home, No Great Mischief, Clara Callan, The Piano Man's Daughter

The Idea of Perfection
AuthorKate Grenville
ISBN0330490656
Harley Savage is a plain woman, a part-time museum curator and quilting expert with three failed marriages and a heart condition. Douglas Cheeseman is a shy, gawky engineer with jug-handle ears, one marriage gone sour, and a crippling lack of physical courage. They meet in the little Australian town...
Away
AuthorJane Urquhart
ISBN0771086504
A stunning, evocative novel set in Ireland and Canada, Away traces a family’s complex and layered past. The narrative unfolds with shimmering clarity, and takes us from the harsh northern Irish coast in the 1840s to the quarantine stations at Grosse Isle and the barely hospitable land of the Canadian...
Mercy Among the Children
AuthorDavid Adams Richards
ISBN0743448189
When twelve-year-old Sidney Henderson pushes his friend Connie off the roof of a local church in a moment of anger, he makes a silent vow: Let Connie live and I will never harm another soul. At that very moment, Connie stands, laughs, and walks away. Sidney keeps his promise through adulthood despite...
The Jade Peony
AuthorWayson Choy
ISBN1590512162
"Beautifully written. . . . It renders a complex and complete human world, which by the end we have learned to love."
— The Boston Book Review

Chinatown, Vancouver, in the late 1930s and '40s provides the backdrop for this poignant first novel, told through the vivid reminiscences of...
Fugitive Pieces
AuthorAnne Michaels
ISBN0679776591
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
Winner of the Lannan Literary Fiction Award
Winner of the Guardian Fiction Award
 
In 1940 a boy bursts from the mud of a war-torn Polish city, where he has buried himself to hide from the soldiers who murdered his family. His name is Jakob Beer....
A Spell of Winter
AuthorHelen Dunmore
ISBN0871137828
Unsettling love and stifled horror create and then destroy the claustrophobic world of this lush, literary gothic set in turn-of-the-century England. Catherine and Rob Allen, siblings two years apart, grow up in a world of shameful secrets. Their mother creates a public outcry, abandoning her family...
The Road Home
AuthorRose Tremain
ISBN0701177934
Fiction so convincing that it could be a true story.

The journey begins with Lev's bus journey from his home in Eastern Europe to the loneliness of impersonal London. Lev is into his early forties, has recently lost his wife to cancer and believes that the only way that he can support his very young...
No Great Mischief
AuthorAlistair MacLeod
ISBN0393341194
Alistair MacLeod musters all of the skill and grace that have won him an international following to give us No Great Mischief, the story of a fiercely loyal family and the tradition that drives it.


Generations after their forebears went into exile, the MacDonalds still face seemingly...
Clara Callan
AuthorRichard B. Wright
ISBN0060506075
In a small town in Canada, Clara Callan reluctantly takes leave of her sister, Nora, who is bound for New York. It's a time when the growing threat of fascism in Europe is a constant worry, and people escape from reality through radio and the movies. Meanwhile, the two sisters -- vastly different in personality,...
The Piano Man's Daughter
AuthorTimothy Findley
ISBN0060936436
Narrated by Charlie Kilworth, whose birth is an echo of his mother's own illegitimate beginnings, The Piano Man's Daughter is the lyrical, multilayered tale of Charlie's mother, Lily, his grandmother Ede, and their family. Lily is a woman pursued by her own demons, "making off with the matches just...
The Cure for Death by Lightning
AuthorGail Anderson-Dargatz
ISBN1860493874
"The cure for death by lightning was handwritten in thick, messy blue ink in my mother’s scrapbook, under the recipe for my father’s favourite oatcakes: Dunk the dead by lightning in a cold water bath for two hours and if still dead, add vinegar and soak for an hour more."

So begins Gail Anderson-Dargatz’s...
When I Lived in Modern Times
AuthorLinda Grant
ISBN0452282926
Winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction

In the spring of 1946, Evelyn Sert stands on the deck of a ship bound for Palestine. For the twenty-year-old from London, it is a time of adventure and change when all things seem possible.

Swept up in the spirited, chaotic churning of her new, strange...
The Colony of Unrequited Dreams
AuthorWayne Johnston
In 1949, Joseph Smallwood became the first premier of the newly federated Canadian province of Newfoundland. Predictably, and almost immediately, his name retreated to the footnotes of history. And yet, as Wayne Johnston makes plain in his epic and affectionate fifth novel, The Colony of Unrequited...
A Crime in the Neighborhood
AuthorSuzanne Berne
ISBN0805055800
An auspicious debut novel by a young writer who will remind readers of Anne Lamott and Anne Tyler

Crime in the Neighborhood centers on a headline event-- the molestation and murder of a twelve-year-old boy in a Washington, D.C., suburb. At the time of the murder, 1973, Marsha was nine years old...
Property
AuthorValerie Martin
Valerie Martin’s Property delivers an eerily mesmerizing inquiry into slavery’s venomous effects on the owner and the owned. The year is 1828, the setting a Louisiana sugar plantation where Manon Gaudet, pretty, bitterly intelligent, and monstrously self-absorbed, seethes under the dominion...
A Recipe for Bees
AuthorGail Anderson-Dargatz
ISBN0676972411
In A Recipe for Bees, Gail Anderson-Dargatz gives readers a remarkable woman to stand beside Hagar Shipley and Daisy Goodwin — but Augusta Olsen also has attitude, a wicked funny bone, and the dubious gift of second sight.

At home in Courtenay, B.C., Augusta anxiously awaits news of her dearly...
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