Domestic fiction

  • Lake effect

    Creator

    D'Aprix Sweeney, Cynthia

    Audience
    unknown
    Anglais

  • Joe Pete

    Creator

    McCulloch, Ian

    Abstract

    A multi-generational story of loss, war, community, survival, perseverance, and renewal. Joe Pete and her cousin Simon will find more than they anticipated buried beneath the snow as they search for her missing father. Their journey will unlock the ancestors and spirits embedded in the present who call back to a past marked by war and kinship, by conflict and wisdom that continue to contour their trajectory towards the future.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    Sudbury, Ontario

    Latitude 46 Publishing

    Non spécifié

  • A grandmother begins the story

    Creator

    Porter, Michelle

    Abstract

    National Bestseller. Finalist for the 2023 Writers' Trust Atwood Gibson Fiction Prize. Five generations of Métis women argue, dance, struggle, laugh, love, and tell the stories that will sing their family, and perhaps the land itself, into healing in this brilliantly original debut novel. Carter is a young mother, recently separated. She is curious, angry, and on a quest to find out what the heritage she only learned of in her teens truly means.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Viking

    Non spécifié

  • The dress shop of dreams a novel

    Creator

    van Praag, Menna

    Abstract

    Since her parents' mysterious deaths many years ago, scientist Cora Sparks has spent her days in the safety of her university lab or at her grandmother Etta's dress shop.

    Non spécifié

  • Mother land

    Creator

    Theroux, Paul

    Abstract

    A richly detailed, darkly hilarious novel of a family held together and torn apart by its narcissistic matriarch To those in her Cape Cod town, Mother is an exemplar of piety, frugality, and hard work. To her husband and seven children, she is the selfish, petty tyrant of Mother Land. She excels at playing her offspring against each other. Her favorite, Angela, died in childbirth; only Angela really understands her, she tells the others.

    Non spécifié