Books like The German Girl
12 books with a reading profile close to The German Girl by Armando Lucas Correa. Balanced in tone; a moderate read.
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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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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 Mercies
history, narrative
In 1617, a sudden storm kills every man in the remote Norwegian fishing village of Vardø.
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4
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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Cane River
history, narrative
Lalita Tademy traced her own family history to write this novel, which follows four generations of women of colour in Louisiana's Cane River region, from slavery through Reconstruction.
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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
by Lisa See
history, narrative
Set in nineteenth-century Hunan province, the narrative follows Lily, a girl born into a modest farming family during the Qing dynasty.
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7
Yellow Wife
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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8
Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk
history, narrative
On New Year's Eve in 1984, eighty-five-year-old Lillian Boxfish sets out for a walk around Manhattan.
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9
The Red Tent
history, narrative
Dinah, the only daughter of the biblical patriarch Jacob, narrates her life against the backdrop of ancient Mesopotamia and Canaan.
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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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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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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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