Books like Cane River
12 books with a reading profile close to Cane River by Lalita Tademy. Balanced in tone; a moderate read.
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1
Girl in Hyacinth Blue
history, narrative
The narrative follows a single, fictional Vermeer painting backwards through time, beginning with its mid-century concealment by a man whose father looted it from a Jewish family during the Holocaust.
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2
The German Girl
history, narrative
In 1939 Berlin, twelve-year-old Hannah Rosenthal and her family board the SS St.
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3
Betty
history, narrative
Set in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains during the mid-twentieth century, the narrative follows Betty Carpenter, one of eight siblings born to a white mother and a Cherokee father.
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4
Echo
history, narrative
The narrative begins with a fairy tale prologue centered on an enchanted harmonica and a prophecy to save three lost souls.
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5
Skeletons at the Feast
history, narrative
In January 1945, as the Red Army advances toward East Prussia, the Emmerich family, who run an estate, decide to flee west.
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6
The Mad Women's Ball
by Victoria Mas
history, narrative
Set in 1885 at the Salpêtrière asylum in Paris, the narrative follows Eugénie Cléry, a young woman committed to the institution by her father after she reveals her ability to speak with spirits.
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7
Dominicana
by Angie Cruz
history, narrative
Ana Cancion is fifteen when she marries Juan Ruiz, a man twice her age, in the Dominican Republic in 1965, so that her family can eventually emigrate.
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8
The Mercies
history, narrative
In 1617, a sudden storm kills every man in the remote Norwegian fishing village of Vardø.
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9
A Northern Light
history, narrative
Set in 1906 in the Adirondack Mountains, the story follows Mattie Gokey, a farm girl torn between a university scholarship and her obligations to her widowed father and siblings.
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10
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
by Dai Sijie
history, narrative
Set during the Chinese Cultural Revolution, the narrative follows two city-bred teenagers, Luo and the unnamed narrator, who are sent to a remote mountain village for forced Maoist re-education.
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The Architect's Apprentice
by Elif Shafak
history, narrative
Jahan arrives in sixteenth-century Constantinople as a boy from India, bringing a white elephant named Chota as a gift for Sultan Suleiman.
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The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane
by Lisa See
history, narrative
Li-yan belongs to the Akha people, an ethnic minority living in a remote mountain village in Yunnan, China, where life centers on harvesting puer tea.
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