Books like An American Marriage
12 books with a reading profile close to An American Marriage by Tayari Jones. Inward-looking and thought-provoking; an easy read.
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Goodbye, Vitamin
by Rachel Khong
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, psychology
Ruth, thirty years old, has lost her fiancé and her job, and she goes home to California to help care for her father Howard, a retired history professor with Alzheimer's.
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2
Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead
Also inward-looking · narrative, psychology
Gilda is a twenty-something atheist lesbian burdened by intrusive thoughts about mortality and a paralyzing inability to say no.
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3
White Oleander
by Janet Fitch
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, psychology
Astrid Magnussen is a young teenager living in Los Angeles whose life fractures when her mother, the poet Ingrid, murders a former lover with the poison of white oleander flowers.
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4
Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, psychology
Leonard Peacock carries a P-38 Nazi handgun in his backpack on his eighteenth birthday.
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5
Sorrow and Bliss
by Meg Mason
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, psychology
Martha Friel is forty years old, her marriage to Patrick is ending, and she has spent most of her adult life navigating a severe, unnamed psychiatric disorder.
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Sana Soyleyemedigim Her Sey
by Celeste Ng
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, psychology
Set in 1970s Ohio, the narrative begins with the disappearance and subsequent death of Lydia Lee, the favorite child of a Chinese-American family.
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Sana Anlatmadigim Her Sey
by Celeste Ng
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, psychology
Set in 1970s Ohio, the narrative begins with the death of Lydia Lee, the favorite daughter of a biracial family.
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Stay with Me
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, psychology
In 1980s Nigeria, Yejide and Akin navigate a marriage defined by their mutual decision to reject polygamy.
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9
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
by Aimee Bender
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, psychology
On her ninth birthday, Rose Edelstein bites into a homemade lemon cake and inadvertently discovers she can taste her mother’s hidden emotions within the ingredients.
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Vom Ende der Einsamkeit
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, psychology
Jules Moreau and his two siblings, Marty and Liz, grow up in a protected household until a car accident kills both of their parents.
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11
The Dutch House
by Ann Patchett
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, psychology
Danny Conroy narrates his life through the lens of the Dutch House, an architectural marvel in Pennsylvania purchased by his father.
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12
More Happy Than Not
by Adam Silvera
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, psychology
In the wake of his father’s suicide, sixteen-year-old Aaron Soto struggles to find happiness in his Bronx housing project.
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