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The Leavers
Lisa Ko
★★★★★· Published 2017· 352 pages· read 2020
An undocumented Chinese mother vanishes; her son grows up adopted and searching. Heartbreaking and beautifully done.
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A courtroom drama sparked by an explosion at a hyperbaric therapy chamber. Twisty, and better on immigrant families and parenting than most thrillers.
★ 5Commitment
Mona Simpson
A single mom slowly comes undone and lands in a state hospital, and her three kids are left to grow up in the wreckage. Quiet, devastating, told with so much tenderness.
★ 5The God of the Woods
Liz Moore
A girl vanishes from an Adirondacks summer camp, tangled up with a disappearance years earlier. A character-driven page-turner I tore through.