Books like The Red Tent
12 books with a reading profile close to The Red Tent by Anita Diamant. Inward-looking; a moderate read.
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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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2
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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3
The German Girl
history, narrative
In 1939 Berlin, twelve-year-old Hannah Rosenthal and her family board the SS St.
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4
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Also inward-looking · history, narrative
Set against the backdrop of Afghanistan’s volatile history from the 1960s to the post-9/11 era, the narrative follows Mariam and Laila, two women from different generations and social classes forced into marriage with t…
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5
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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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 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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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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9
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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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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11
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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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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