11 books like Spejl, skulder, blink

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The Summer Before the Dark Doris Lessing · 1973 · ★ 3.6 · 250p · ≈ 8h · Moderate With her children grown and her husband away in America for several months, Kate Brown finds herself alone for the first time in twenty years. Shares: Loneliness, Aging, Domestic fiction

We Need New Names NoViolet Bulawayo · 2013 · ★ 3.8 · 301p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Whenever foreigners visit Paradise they always ask Darling and her friends to smile for the camera. Here are some of the things Darling and her friends have to smile about: stealing guavas, gifts from NGOs, singing Lady Gaga at the tops of their voices. But they all want to go to the real paradise in America or Britain. Shares: Family life, Domestic fiction

Back When We Were Grownups Anne Tyler · 2001 · ★ 3.6 · 302p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Een 53-jarige vrouw zit in een midlife-crisis en blikt terug op de tijd dat ze als 19-jarige trouwde met een weduwnaar met drie dochters, een groot huis en een bedrijf. Shares: Self-actualization, Domestic fiction

Seeds of Yesterday V.C. Andrews · 1984 · ★ 4.2 · 382p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Seeds of Yesterday is a novel written by V. C. Andrews. It is the fourth book in the Dollanganger Series. The story continues from the point of view of the protagonist, Cathy, following her from the age of 52 until her death a few years later. ---------- Also contained in: If There Be Thorns / Seeds of Yesterday Shares: Family life, Domestic fiction

We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves Karen Joy Fowler · 2013 · ★ 3.7 · 336p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Meet the Cooke family: Mother and Dad, brother Lowell, sister Fern, and Rosemary, who begins her story in the middle. She has her reasons. "I was raised with a chimpanzee," she explains. "I tell you Fern is a chimp and, already, you aren't thinking of her as my sister.... Until Fern's expulsion... she was my twin, my fun-house mirror, my whirlwind other half.... I loved her as a sister." As a… Shares: Family life, Domestic fiction

Little Fires Everywhere Celeste Ng · 2014 · ★ 4.1 · 384p · ≈ 12h · Moderate In Shaker Heights, a placid, progressive suburb of Cleveland, everything is planned – from the layout of the winding roads, to the colors of the houses, to the successful lives its residents will go on to lead. And no one embodies this spirit more than Elena Richardson, whose guiding principle is playing by the rules. Enter Mia Warren – an enigmatic artist and single mother – who arrives in this… Shares: Family life, Domestic fiction

Fallen Hearts V.C. Andrews · 1988 · ★ 3.9 · 384p · ≈ 12h · Moderate With Fallen Hearts, V.C. Andrews returns again to the number one best-selling saga of the Casteels, continuing the story that was begun in Heaven and Dark Angel. In Fallen Hearts, Heaven returns to her Winnerow and begins to live out her childhood dreams--she becomes a respected schoolteacher at the local school and marries her sweetheart, Logan Stonewall. After their wedding trip back to… Shares: Family life, Domestic fiction

Sea Swept Nora Roberts · 1968 · ★ 4.3 · 342p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Sea Swept is the first book of four in the Chesapeake Bay novel series. Originally published in 1998. ---------- Also contained in: The Quinn Brothers Sea Swept / Rising Tides / Inner Harbor Shares: Family life, Domestic fiction

Song of Solomon Toni Morrison · 1634 · ★ 4.4 · 353p · ≈ 11h · Demanding Milkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain attempt at flight. For the rest of his life he, too, will be trying to fly. With this brilliantly imagined novel, Toni Morrison transfigures the coming-of-age story as audaciously as Saul Bellow or Gabriel García Márquez. As she follows Milkman from his rustbelt city to the place of his family’s… Shares: Family life, Domestic fiction

The Modern Tradition - Second Edition Daniel F. Howard · 1972 · ★ 4.0 · 646p · ≈ 21h · Moderate Preserve food without invasive processing with these groundbreaking technologies Consumer demand for less processed foods have skyrocketed in recent decades. There is a growing desire for foods perceived as fresher and healthier than the products of traditional preservation processes, such as canning. A wide variety of new nonthermal processing techniques have emerged to meet this demand,… Shares: Family life, Domestic fiction

The Dead James Joyce · 1965 · ★ 4.0 · 71p · ≈ 2h · Moderate "The Dead" is the final short story in the 1914 collection Dubliners by James Joyce. The story deals with themes of love and loss as well as raising questions about the nature of the Irish identity. ---------- Also contained in: Best Short Stories of the Modern Age Dubliners Dubliners / Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Essential James Joyce Fiction 100 Fictions Norton Anthology of Short… Shares: Family life, Domestic fiction

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