Books like Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk
12 books with a reading profile close to Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk by Kathleen Rooney. Balanced in tone; a moderate read.
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1
A Piece of the World
history, narrative
Set in the coastal town of Cushing, Maine, this novel imagines the life of Christina Olson, the subject of Andrew Wyeth’s painting Christina’s World.
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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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3
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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4
The Wind Knows My Name
history, narrative
In 1938 Vienna, Samuel Adler is a five-year-old Jewish boy whose father disappears on Kristallnacht, and who is sent to England on the Kindertransport.
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5
The German Girl
history, narrative
In 1939 Berlin, twelve-year-old Hannah Rosenthal and her family board the SS St.
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6
The Chaperone
history, narrative
In 1922, Cora Carlisle, a conventional Kansas housewife, agrees to chaperone fifteen-year-old Louise Brooks on a summer trip to New York City.
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7
The Mercies
history, narrative
In 1617, a sudden storm kills every man in the remote Norwegian fishing village of Vardø.
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8
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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9
The Pearl That Broke Its Shell
history, narrative
Rahima is a girl in Kabul whose father is addicted to opium, and whose family is desperate for money.
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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 Birth House
by Ami McKay
history, narrative
Dora Rare is a young woman growing up in a small Nova Scotia village around the First World War.
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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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