Books like Ask Again, Yes
12 books with a reading profile close to Ask Again, Yes by Mary Beth Keane. Inward-looking; a moderate read.
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The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks
by E. Lockhart
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
At Alabaster Preparatory Academy, sophomore Frankie Landau-Banks discovers that her boyfriend belongs to the Loyal Order of the Basset Hound, an all-male secret society with deep historical roots.
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Writers & Lovers
by Lily King
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Set in 1997 Massachusetts, the narrative follows Casey Peabody, a thirty-one-year-old waitress mourning her mother’s sudden death while struggling to finish a novel she has worked on for six years.
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Infinite Country
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
The narrative follows Elena and Mauro, a Colombian couple who overstay their visas in the United States, and the three children they raise across two nations.
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Interesting Facts about Space
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Enid Hoffman is a deaf woman who manages her chronic anxiety through a fixation on space trivia and a compulsive habit of monitoring local crime reports.
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The Beekeeper of Aleppo
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Nuri is a beekeeper who tends to hives in the Syrian city of Aleppo alongside his wife, Afra, an artist who loses her sight after a bomb kills their young son.
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I Am the Messenger
by Markus Zusak
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Ed Kennedy is an underage cab driver in a dead-end Australian suburb with no prospects beyond playing cards with his eccentric friends.
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7
Three Days in June
by Anne Tyler
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Set against the humid backdrop of Baltimore, seventeen-year-old June navigates seventy-two hours of familial tension and burgeoning romantic attraction.
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Wonder Boys
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Grady Tripp, a middle-aged English professor in Pittsburgh, wrote a successful novel years ago and has spent seven years trying to finish a second one, which has grown to thousands of pages.
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Black Cake
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
After the death of Eleanor Bennett, her estranged children, Byron and Benny, reunite in California to hear her final recorded message.
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Migrations
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Franny Stone travels to Greenland to track the final migration of Arctic terns, a species nearing extinction in a world depleted of wildlife.
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The Book of Unknown Americans
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Two families move into the same apartment building in Delaware: the Riveras, who came from Mexico, and the Toros from Panama.
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The Weird Sisters
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
The three Andreas sisters, daughters of a Shakespeare professor who speaks mostly in quotations, come home to their small Ohio college town because their mother has breast cancer.
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