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A Complicated Kindness
Miriam Toews
★★★★· Published 2004· 258 pages· read 2019
A sharp, funny teenage girl chafing against her strict Mennonite town. Toews makes you laugh and ache at once.
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Carlos Ruiz Zafón
A boy in postwar Barcelona picks one book from the Cemetery of Forgotten Books, and it upends his life. Gothic, bookish, and totally transporting.
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Gail Tsukiyama
Girls in a Chinese silk factory who take vows never to marry and build a fierce sisterhood instead. Absorbing and tender.
★ 5The Shipping News
Annie Proulx
A hapless man starts over in bleak, beautiful Newfoundland. Proulx's prose is like nothing else, and I'd follow it anywhere.