18 books like The Barrowfields

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The King of Lies John Hart · 2006 · ★ 3.9 · 416p · ≈ 13h · Moderate When Work Pickens finds his father murdered, the investigation pushes a repressed family history to the surface and he sees his own carefully constructed facade begin to crack. Shares: Fathers, North Carolina, Fathers and sons, Death

The emperor of Ocean Park Stephen L. Carter · 2002 · ★ 4.0 · 657p · ≈ 21h · Moderate n his triumphant fictional debut, Stephen Carter combines a large-scale, riveting novel of suspense with the saga of a unique family. The Emperor of Ocean Park is set in two privileged worlds: the upper crust African American society of the Eastern seabord--families who summer at Martha's Vineyard--and the inner circle of an Ivy League law school. Talcott Garland is a successful law professor,… Shares: Fathers, Fathers and sons, Death

The Book of Form and Emptiness Ruth L. Ozeki · 2021 · ★ 4.0 · 560p · ≈ 18h · Moderate The Book of Form and Emptiness is a novel by American author Ruth Ozeki, published in 2021 by Viking. Ozekis fourth novel, the book won the 2022 Women's Prize for Fiction. The story follows a boy who hears voices from inanimate objects while the narrative explores themes of mental illness and bereavement. Shares: Fathers, Death, Bildungsromans

Daddy Danielle Steel · 1989 · ★ 4.4 · 352p · ≈ 11h · Moderate El mundo alrededor de Oliver Watson parece disolverse cuando Sarah, su esposa durante dieciocho an os, regresa a Harvard para graduarse. Oliver es abandonado a su suerte, con tres hijos y una libertad que jama s deseo. Cuando la madre de Oliver muere, su padre tambie n ha cambiado: ma s osado que su hijo y con menos tiempo por vivir, George Watson pronto reencontrara el amor y un nuevo… Shares: Fathers, Fathers and sons

The last sin eater Francine Rivers · 1998 · ★ 4.1 · 327p · ≈ 10h · Moderate The New York Times bestselling author of Redeeming Love and A Voice in the Wind pens a captivating tale of suffering, seeking, and redemption set in Appalachia in the 1850s.In the misty peaks and valleys of Appalachia roams the sin eater—a myth as much as a man, burdened with absolving the sins of villagers passing from this life to the next. But when a young girl uncovers the dark secret behind… Shares: Appalachian mountains, North Carolina

Vermilion Phyllis A. Whitney · 1981 · ★ 3.8 · 294p · ≈ 9h · Moderate From the jacket From the very beginning, for Lindsay Phillips, there was the memory of that terrible cane with the dragon's head-threatening horror, torment, death. And always there was Vermilion whispering in Lindsay's ear: "Go! You must go to Arizona. Everything you want is waiting for you there." Lindsay hadn't listened to Vermilion for years, but now she couldn't shut out her… Shares: Fathers, Death

Upstate Kalisha Buckhanon · 2004 · ★ 4.1 · 247p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Harlem, 1985. Antonio has been seeing Natasha for a while now. Their relationship is full of the drama, the passion and the intensity of every first love affair. But their story is different. For Antonio is on trial for the murder of his father. This is Natasha and Antonio's story, one struggling to cope with life in jail, the other with life outside. Extraordinarily vivid and honest, their… Shares: Fathers, Death, Bildungsromans

Twilight at Mac's Place Ross Thomas · 1990 · ★ 4.2 · 343p · ≈ 11h · Moderate The son of a dead CIA agent is offered $100,000 for the rights to his father's memoirs sight unseen. Shares: Fathers, Death

Clayhanger Arnold Bennett · 1910 · 415p · ≈ 13h · Challenging This coming-of-age story set in the Midlands of Victorian England follows Edwin Clayhanger as he leaves school, takes over the family business and falls in love. Bennett wrote it in 1910 at the Royal Albion Hotel, Brighton, and in Lausanne. Edwin Clayhanger's father, Darius, has risen from an extremely poor background, which Bennett repeatedly returns to, to become a prominent printer in Bursley.… Shares: Fathers and sons, Bildungsromans

Arcadia Lauren Groff · 2012 · ★ 3.7 · 301p · ≈ 10h · Moderate In the fields of western New York State in the 1970s, a few dozen idealists set out to live off the land, founding a commune centered on the grounds of a decaying mansion called Arcadia House. Arcadia follows this romantic utopian dream from its hopeful start through its heyday. Arcadia’s inhabitants include Handy, the charismatic leader; his wife, Astrid, a midwife; Abe, a master carpenter;… Shares: Homecoming, Bildungsromans

The Dry Jane Harper · 2016 · ★ 4.0 · 352p · ≈ 11h · Moderate "Federal Agent Aaron Falk hasn't been back to the place where he grew up in twenty years. Not since he and his father were run out of town. Even when Falk gets word that his childhood best friend, Luke, is dead, his entire family murdered, Falk still isn't planning on going back. But then he gets a note: 'Luke lied. You lied. Be at the funeral.' And just like that, Falk is swept back into the… Shares: Homecoming, Death

Flirting with Pete Barbara Delinsky · 2003 · ★ 3.9 · 355p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Psychologist Casey Ellis never met her father -- but that didn't stop her from following in his professional footsteps. Now he has died, and Casey is shocked to have inherited his elegant Boston town house, complete with a maid and a handsome, enigmatic gardener. When she finds a manuscript that could be a novel, a journal, or a case study of one of her father's patients in her new home, she… Shares: Fathers, Death, Bildungsromans

Anansi Boys Neil Gaiman · 2005 · ★ 4.0 · 480p · ≈ 16h · Moderate Anansi Boys is a fantasy novel by English writer Neil Gaiman. In the novel, "Mr. Nancy" — an incarnation of the West African trickster god Anansi — dies, leaving twin sons, who in turn discover one another's existence after being separated as young children. The novel follows their adventures as they explore their common heritage. Although it is not a sequel to Gaiman's previous novel American… Shares: Fathers, Fathers and sons

Christy Catherine Marshall · 1967 · ★ 4.3 · 496p · ≈ 16h · Moderate The train taking nineteen-year-old teacher Christy Huddleston from her home in Asheville, North Carolina, might as well be transporting her to another world. The Smoky Mountain community of Cutter Gap feels suspended in time, trapped by poverty, superstitions, and century-old traditions. But as Christy struggles to find acceptance in her new home, some see her — and her one-room school — as a… Shares: Appalachian mountains, Bildungsromans

Mapping the Interior Stephen Graham Jones · 2017 · ★ 3.9 · 110p · ≈ 3h · Moderate Walking through his own house at night, a fifteen-year-old thinks he sees another person stepping through a doorway. Instead of the people who could be there, his mother or his brother, the figure reminds him of his long-gone father, who died mysteriously before his family left the reservation. When he follows it he discovers his house is bigger and deeper than he knew. The house is the kind of… Shares: Fathers, Death

The dry Jane Harper · 2017 · ★ 4.1 · 328p · ≈ 10h · Moderate "A small town hides big secrets in The Dry. After getting a note demanding his presence, Federal Agent Aaron Falk arrives in his hometown for the first time in decades to attend the funeral of his best friend, Luke. Twenty years ago when Falk was accused of murder, Luke was his alibi. Falk and his father fled under a cloud of suspicion, saved from prosecution only because of Luke's steadfast… Shares: Homecoming, Death

Jim the boy Tony Earley · 2000 · ★ 3.9 · 227p · ≈ 7h · Moderate A fatherless ten-year-old boy comes of age in a Depression-era, southern farming community in this charming and humorous debut novel.A New York Times Notable Book of the Year"Rich and satisfying . . . A novel that perfectly captures the innocence and confusion and wonder of childhood." —Chicago TribuneHailed as one of those rare works with the power to enchant readers of all ages, this luminous… Shares: North Carolina, Bildungsromans

True Grit Charles Portis · 1968 · ★ 4.3 · 218p · ≈ 7h · Moderate True Grit is Charles Portis' most famous novel--first published in 1968. It tells the story of Mattie Ross, who is just fourteen years of age when a coward going by the name of Tom Chaney shoots her father down in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and robs him of his life, his horse, and $150 in cash money. Mattie leaves home to avenge her father's blood. With the one-eyed Rooster Cogburn, the meanest… Shares: Fathers, Death

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