In modern India, a Parsi housewife's abusive marriage mirrors the quiet strength and hidden sorrows of her longtime domestic worker, connecting them through shared endurance.
At their eldest daughter's wedding, an Indian-American Muslim family faces decades of unspoken choices and betrayals that led to their youngest son's estrangement, forcing them to reconcile tradition, individuality, faith, and modern life.
Kundera explores the human condition through interconnected stories, each a variation on memory, exile, and the fight against political and personal erasure in Prague.
In a city overwhelmed by sectarian violence, a young woman's quiet life is disrupted when a powerful paramilitary figure begins to stalk her, forcing her to deal with rumors, social judgment, and unspoken threats.
Over three Junes, a Scottish family deals with the effects of love, loss, and new connections, uncovering their lives through a widower's Greek affair, a son's return home, and an artist's look at her past.
A philosophical bean can and a mystical dessert spoon hold court with a spirited waitress and a boisterous welder in an absurd adventure through the New York art scene and the forgotten history of a Palestinian god.
Orphaned and poor, Eva Luna tells her remarkable life story through vivid tales, changing her South American world with imagination and the diverse people she meets.
During a global pandemic that turns people into automatons, a secretly pregnant millennial office worker navigates the ruins of New York with a cult-like group of survivors, confronting the consumerism of her past life.
After a Boston snowstorm and a sudden accident, a former mayor faces the complex reality of his unconventional family when his biological and adopted sons' lives intersect with a stranger, making him rethink what it means to protect those he loves.
In the isolated redwood wilderness, a 14-year-old survivalist navigates the brutal and twisted love of her father, where every lesson in self-preservation is a step toward escaping his insidious control.
In 1960s Long Island, a fallen aristocrat trapped in a grocery clerk's life grapples with the corrosive allure of ambition and the slippery slope of moral compromise, desperate to reclaim his family's lost prestige.
In early 20th-century America, the lives of a wealthy New Rochelle family, a Harlem pianist, and an immigrant peddler intersect with historical figures like Houdini and Freud, exploring class, race, and the pursuit of justice.
After a shared glance during a tragic ballooning accident, a science journalist's perfect life with his lover unravels as he becomes the target of an obsessive stranger's terrifying and relentless delusion of love.
When her psychic twin predicts an earthquake that threatens their hometown, a suburban mother must confront her own suppressed abilities and the sister she's long tried to distance herself from.
When her corgis lead her to a mobile library, the Queen unexpectedly trades royal duties for literary pursuits, alarming her advisors and transforming her world view with every turn of a page.
After fleeing the Jim Crow South, a resilient mother raises eleven children during the Great Migration, their lives showing her courage and a nation's changes.
An impressionable Midwestern girl's journey into the glittering, amoral abyss of turn-of-the-century Chicago exposes the raw materialism and spiritual innocence at the heart of the American dream.
Haunted by war, a young American leaves his privileged life and engagement for a spiritual quest, leaving behind love, betrayal, and social disapproval, all observed by a cynical author.
In a secluded Kentucky home for unwed mothers, a mysterious woman's past as a married runaway threatens to unravel her carefully constructed new life and the bond with the daughter she initially intended to abandon.
From puréed pork shoulder to secretive supper clubs, a Midwestern chef's culinary journey through love, loss, and lutefisk transforms her into a culinary legend, one dish at a time.
