That Kind of Mother
10 best books like That Kind of Mother (Rumaan Alam): Clock Dance, Ask Again, Yes, The Queen of Hearts, You Think It, I'll Say It, A Place for Us, Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love, The Last Romantics, The Book of Essie, I'll Be Your Blue Sky, Visible Empire
| Author | Anne Tyler |
| ISBN | 1784742449 |
Willa Drake can count on one hand the defining moments of her life: when she was eleven and her mother disappeared, being proposed to at twenty-one, the accident that would make her a widow at forty-one. At each of these moments, Willa ended up on a path laid out for her by others.
So when she receives...
| Author | Mary Beth Keane |
| ISBN | 1982106980 |
How much can a family forgive?
A profoundly moving novel about two neighboring families in a suburban town, the bond between their children, a tragedy that reverberates over four decades, the daily intimacies of marriage, and the power of forgiveness.
Francis Gleeson and Brian...
Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2018 by Southern Living, Elite Daily, and Writer's Digest
A debut novel set against a background of hospital rounds and life-or-death decisions that pulses with humor and empathy and explores the heart's capacity for forgiveness...
Zadie Anson...
You Think It, I'll Say It
| Author | Curtis Sittenfeld |
| ISBN | 1473552621 |
A suburban mother of two fantasizes about the downfall of an old friend whose wholesome lifestyle empire may or may not be built on a lie. A high-powered lawyer honeymooning with her husband is caught off guard by the appearance of the girl who tormented her in high school. A shy Ivy League student learns...
| Author | Fatima Farheen Mirza |
| ISBN | 1524763551 |
A Place for Us unfolds the lives of an Indian-American Muslim family, gathered together in their Californian hometown to celebrate the eldest daughter, Hadia's, wedding - a match of love rather than tradition. It is here, on this momentous day, that Amar, the youngest of the siblings, reunites with...
Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love
| Author | Dani Shapiro |
| ISBN | 1524732710 |
The author of Hourglass now gives us a new memoir about identity, paternity, and family secrets—a real-time In the spring of 2016, through a genealogy website to which she had whimsically submitted her DNA for analysis, Dani Shapiro received the stunning news that her father was not her biological...
| Author | Tara Conklin |
| ISBN | 0062358227 |
“The greatest works of poetry are the stories we tell about ourselves."
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.
It begins...
| Author | Meghan MacLean Weir |
A debut novel of family, fame, and religion that tells the emotionally stirring, wildly captivating story of the seventeen-year-old daughter of an evangelical preacher, star of the family's hit reality show, and the secret pregnancy that threatens to blow their entire world apart.
Esther...
| Author | Marisa de los Santos |
| ISBN | 0062431935 |
The New York Times bestselling author revisits the characters from her beloved novels Love Walked In and Belong to Me in this captivating, beautifully written drama involving family, friendship, secrets, sacrifice, courage, and true love for fans of Jojo Moyes, Elin Hilderbrand, and Nancy Thayer
On...
| Author | Hannah Pittard |
| ISBN | 0544748069 |
From a writer who “deserves the attention of anyone in search of today's best fiction”* comes an epic novel—based on true events—of wealth, race, grief, and love, charting one sweltering summer in Atlanta that left no one unchanged (*Washington Post)
It’s a humid June day when...
