Books like The Mercies
12 books with a reading profile close to The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave. Inward-looking; a moderate read.
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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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2
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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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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American Wife
Also inward-looking · history, narrative
Alice Blackwell, a quiet, bookish girl from Wisconsin, becomes a librarian and a teacher, and later marries Charlie Blackwell, a wealthy Republican who becomes President of the United States.
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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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Girl at War
by Sara Nović
Also inward-looking · history, narrative
Ten-year-old Ana Jurić lives a carefree life in Zagreb until the Yugoslav Civil War erupts in 1991.
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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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The Red Tent
Also inward-looking · 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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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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10
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
by Lisa See
Also inward-looking · 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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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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12
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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