domestic fiction

Isabelle Goodrow, horrified and enraged when she discovers her teenage daughter Amy is involved with a math teacher at the high school, comes to realize that her outrage is mostly the result of the secret she has been keeping for most of Amy's life.

A year after her husband's death, Emily Maxwell gathers her family at their summer cottage for one last summer vacation before she sells the property, but each member of the family is struggling to overcome their own heartache and Emily's dreams of a happy vacation are ruined.

A group of six women, college friends who have been meeting biannually for thirty years, put aside their individual woes to provide a circle of strength when one of them is diagnosed with a terminal illness.

Aspiring playwright Kit Zanetti lucks into the story of a lifetime when she accepts an invitation to tea from her elderly upstairs neighbor Aunt Lu and is treated to the tale of Lu's life in Greenwich Village in the 1950s as a beautiful, independent apprentice to an up-and-coming designer at a chic Fifth Avenue department store.

After Lulu and Merry's mother is killed in a drunken rage by their father, who is sent to prison, they become orphans and are sent to a terrifying group home where they cling to each other for support, but thirty years later, the girls have yet to come to terms with the events and each has a different view of their incarcerated father.

Seventeen-year-old Lark, living with her aunt in West Virginia after the death of her father in the Korean War and her mother's abandonment, struggles to understand her family's past and create a future for herself and her disabled brother, Termite.

The camaraderie of four mothers is tested when social cliques create trouble for the friendship between their middle-school-age daughters.

Naomi, widowed eight years earlier, is faced with loss again when her adult son is killed in an automobile accident, and decides to move from New England to her hometown in South Carolina, accompanied by her daughter-in-law Ruth, where both are welcomed into a large and loving family that helps them deal with their grief.

Reflects on the trials and tests endured by a young girl learning to cope with her parent's divorce and how friendship and imagination enable her to escape the pressures which pull against her.