domestic fiction

New York intellectuals Frank and April Wheeler move to the suburbs of Connecticut in 1955 and soon learn that the American dream is not at all what they expected.

When her car breaks down in the mountains twenty-four-year-old violinist Amelia Devries meets Michael Hostetler, a young Amish man who introduces her to his Old Order community in Hickory Hollow, and what she experiences there changes her life forever.

Wealthy Caucasians Dana and Hugh Clarke give birth to a child that has distinctly African-American traits; and while searching their lineage for answers, they uncover secrets about both of their families.

Tells the story of Rose Mannion, an Irish woman transplanted in western Kentucky, showing how her legacy of love and betrayal affected succeeding generations of her family.

Iris Lockhart is shocked when she receives a phone call informing her that her great-aunt Esme, whom Iris never knew about, is being released from the mental hospital where she has spent the last sixty-one years, and wonders what long-buried family secrets the woman will bring with her when Iris takes her in.

Twelve-year-old Emily Parmenter, her young life marked by the disappearance of her mother and the death of a beloved brother, has withdrawn into a world of her own making on the family's faded plantation in South Carolina where her father and brothers raise the legendary Lowcountry Boykin hunting spaniels, but everything changes when troubled debutante Lulu Foxworth comes to stay, hoping to escape her struggles with alcohol and sex addiction.

Three men from three generations of the same family deal with their relationships with women, including Oliver's widowed father who is involved with the woman next door, Oliver who has recently been divorced, and Oliver's teenage son who just had a child with his girlfriend.

Presents a relentless indictment against the callous greed of the Victorian industrial society and its misapplied utilitarian philosophy.

An adaptation of Elenor H. Porter's story in which an orphaned eleven-year-old comes to live with her austere, wealthy, and unhappy Aunt Polly and brings joy to gloomy members of the community with her philosophy of gladness.

Two Cuban sisters--one a master electrician in Havana, the other a successful cosmetics saleswoman in Miami--are reunited after a thirty-year separation and learn the truth behind their mother's tragic death at the hands of their father years earlier.