Books like Memphis
12 books with a reading profile close to Memphis by Tara M. Stringfellow. Inward-looking; a moderate read.
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1
The Vanishing Half
by Brit Bennett
Also inward-looking · history, narrative
In the small town of Mallard, Louisiana, the light-skinned Vignes twins, Desiree and Stella, grow up in a community that prizes fair complexions.
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2
The Storm We Made
by Vanessa Chan
history, narrative
In 1930s British Malaya, Cecily Alcantara works as a low-level clerk while feeling the sting of colonial hierarchy.
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3
The Covenant of Water
history, narrative
Spanning seven decades in Kerala, South India, the narrative follows three generations of a family afflicted by a peculiar medical condition known as the Condition.
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4
Demon Copperhead
Also inward-looking · history, narrative
In the mountains of southern Appalachia, a boy nicknamed Demon Copperhead is born to a teenage mother in a single-wide trailer.
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5
In the Time of the Butterflies
history, narrative
In 1960, three of the four Mirabal sisters were beaten to death on a road in the Dominican Republic because they had opposed the dictator Rafael Trujillo.
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6
The Mercies
Also inward-looking · history, narrative
In 1617, a sudden storm kills every man in the remote Norwegian fishing village of Vardø.
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7
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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8
Yellow Wife
Also inward-looking · history, narrative
Born into a life of relative privilege on a Virginia plantation, Pheby Delores Brown is promised her freedom at age eighteen.
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9
The Kite Runner
Also inward-looking · history, narrative
Set in Kabul during the final years of the Afghan monarchy, the story follows Amir, a privileged boy who fails to intervene when his loyal friend and servant, Hassan, is brutally assaulted after a kite-fighting tourname…
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10
Cutting for Stone
Also inward-looking · history, narrative
The story follows twin brothers Marion and Shiva Stone, born from a clandestine union between an Indian nun and a British surgeon in an Addis Ababa mission hospital.
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11
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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12
The Bastard of Istanbul
by Elif Shafak
history, narrative
Asya Kazancı is a nineteen-year-old Turkish girl in Istanbul, raised in a household of women, with no knowledge of who her father is.
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