Books like The Gift of Rain
12 books with a reading profile close to The Gift of Rain by Tan Twan Eng. Balanced in tone; a moderate read.
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Manhattan Beach
history, narrative
Set in New York City during the Great Depression and World War II, the narrative follows Anna Kerrigan as she maneuvers through the male-dominated Brooklyn Navy Yard.
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2
Noticia de un secuestro
history, narrative
Gabriel García Márquez reconstructs the 1990 abductions of ten prominent Colombian citizens by the Extraditables, a group led by Pablo Escobar to pressure the government into banning extradition to the United States.
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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
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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5
Memphis
history, narrative
Spanning three generations of a Black family in Memphis, Tennessee, this novel centers on the women of one family, who must handle poverty, domestic violence and racism while keeping alive a sense of faith and creativit…
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Demon Copperhead
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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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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8
The Weight of Ink
history, narrative
In 2000s London, historian Helen Watt, who is ill and near retirement, is called to an old house where workers have found a hidden cache of seventeenth-century Jewish papers.
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All the Light We Cannot See
history, narrative
Marie-Laure LeBlanc, a blind girl living in Paris, flees to Saint-Malo with her father to escape the Nazi occupation, carrying a precious and potentially cursed diamond from the Museum of Natural History.
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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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Island Beneath the Sea
history, narrative
Zarité, a young girl sold into slavery in eighteenth-century Saint-Domingue, navigates the brutal sugar plantations owned by Toulouse Valmorain.
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The Book of Negroes
history, narrative
Aminata Diallo is eleven when slavers seize her from her village in West Africa and force her across the Atlantic.
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