Books like There Are Rivers in the Sky
12 books with a reading profile close to There Are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak. Contemplative and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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1
In the Time of the Butterflies
Also thought-provoking · 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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2
All the Light We Cannot See
Also contemplative and thought-provoking · 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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3
Pachinko
by Min Jin Lee
Also contemplative and thought-provoking · history, narrative
Sunja, the daughter of a crippled fisherman in colonial Korea, becomes pregnant by a married yakuza member.
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4
The Covenant of Water
Also thought-provoking · 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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5
The Nickel Boys
Also contemplative and thought-provoking · history, narrative
Set in Jim Crow Florida, the story follows Elwood Curtis, a studious teenager who adheres to Dr.
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6
The Storm We Made
by Vanessa Chan
Also thought-provoking · 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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A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
Also contemplative and thought-provoking · history, narrative
In a rural village in war-torn Chechnya, Akhmed rescues an eight-year-old girl named Havaa after her father is abducted by Russian soldiers.
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8
Wandering Stars
by Tommy Orange
Also thought-provoking · history, narrative
Wandering Stars traces a lineage of a Cheyenne family from the 1864 Sand Creek Massacre and the forced assimilation at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School to the present day.
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9
The Night Watch
by Sarah Waters
Also thought-provoking · history, narrative
Set in London during and immediately after the Second World War, the narrative moves backward in time from 1947 to 1941.
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10
Of Women and Salt
Also contemplative and thought-provoking · history, narrative
Spanning from nineteenth-century Cuban cigar factories to a modern-day detention center in Texas, the narrative follows five generations of women linked by blood and migration.
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11
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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12
Americanah
Also thought-provoking · history, narrative
Ifemelu and Obinze are young lovers in military-ruled Nigeria who depart the country for different hemispheres.
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