Books like Afterlife
12 books with a reading profile close to Afterlife by Julia Alvarez. Inward-looking, contemplative and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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A Spool of Blue Thread
by Anne Tyler
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, literary
Redniss Street in Baltimore is where the Whitshank family history anchors itself, centered on a wooden house built by their patriarch.
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2
Inseparable
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, literary
This autobiographical novel tracks the intense friendship between Sylvie and Andrée, fictionalized versions of Simone de Beauvoir and Elisabeth "Zaza" Lacoin.
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3
The Kitchen God's Wife
by Amy Tan
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, literary
Winnie Louie has kept her past secret from her Chinese American daughter, Pearl, who in turn is hiding her own diagnosis of multiple sclerosis.
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4
En agosto nos vemos
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, literary
Ana Magdalena Bach, a married woman in her forties, travels to an island each August 16 to place flowers on her mother's grave.
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Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
by Anne Tyler
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, literary
Pearl Tull is abandoned by her husband Beck and raises three children, Cody, Ezra and Jenny, in Baltimore on her own, with a mix of strictness and bitterness.
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Dream Count
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, literary
The novel centers on Chiamaka, a Nigerian travel writer living in America during the pandemic, as she examines the intersections of her past romances and her current desires.
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7
Beautyland
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Adina Gady grew up in Philadelphia believing she was a human girl, but she is actually an extraterrestrial sent to observe the inhabitants of Earth.
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8
Another Brooklyn
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, literary
In the 1970s, August moves from Tennessee to Bushwick, Brooklyn, after the death of her mother.
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9
Behind the Scenes at the Museum
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Ruby Lennox begins her story at the moment of her conception in 1951 in York, and narrates her family's history through her own eyes.
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10
Animal Dreams
Also inward-looking · narrative, literary
Codi Noline returns to her rural Arizona hometown to care for her father, a doctor descending into Alzheimer’s disease.
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11
Brick Lane
by Monica Ali
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Nazneen is seventeen when she leaves a village in Bangladesh for an arranged marriage to Chanu, a man more than twenty years older, in a London housing estate in Tower Hamlets.
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12
Mayflies
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, literary
The story begins in 1986, following teenager James Noble and his charismatic friend Tully Dawson in a small Scottish town.
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