The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O’Farrell

Iris Lockhart is stunned when she receives news that her great-aunt Esme, a previously unknown woman edited out of her family's history, is being released from Cauldstone Hospital, where she has been confined for more than sixty years, and soon discovers that Esme holds the key to long-hidden family secrets that could change her life forever.


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Mudbound by Hillary Jordan

In 1946, Laura McAllan struggles to raise children without electricity or running water on her husband's failing Mississippi Delta farm. As the war comes to an end, two young men return to work the land.


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The Madonnas of Leningrad by Debra Dean

In a novel that moves back and forth between the Soviet Union during World War II and modern-day America, Marina, an elderly Russian woman with Alzheimers, recalls vivid images of her youth during the height of the siege of Leningrad.


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Four Unmissable Food Memoirs

We all love cookbooks. Even if you're not a cook, so many of the best cookbook writers offer recipes with great stories behind them. Maybe that's why food memoirs have been on the rise the past few years. These memoirs go beyond lists of ingredients to explore the ways in which food nourishes not just our bodies, but our lives.


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Separation Anxiety by Laura Zigman

Fifty-year-old formerly famous childrens’ book author Judy Vogel is anxious. Separated from her anxious, failed musician husband, they still live in the same house in order to support their anxious thirteen-year-old Montessori school attending son.


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