domestic fiction

Clare and Henry, deeply in love, try desperately to maintain normal lives even though he has been diagnosed with Chrono-Displacement Disorder, a condition in which his genetic clock periodically resets, pulling him through time to the past or future.

In the community of Holt, Colorado, Victoria Roubideaux goes to college, leaving the McPheron brothers, who took her in when she was pregnant; DJ, a boy who lives alone with his grandfather, befriends two sisters whose father left them; and the children of a disabled couple face harassment at school.

Nina Goldman, growing up in Akron, Ohio, in the 1970s, struggles to overcome the feelings of inferiority caused by the birthmark that covers one of her eyes, but she is helped along by her loving mom and larger-than-life father, and when a treatment is found that could remove the mark, Nina is conflicted about whether to go forward.

The members of the Wapshot family of St. Botolphs drift far from their New England village, falling into a variety of mishaps and outrageous situations.

Barnaby Gaitlin, a thirty-year-old who was frequently in trouble as a youth, has been working steadily for eleven years for Rent-a-Back, Inc., but it seems as though his family, his ex-wife, and even the woman who seems to be interested in him, just cannot get over his past.

The members of the Rubins family struggle to find true love and happiness, even as their family begins to fall apart.

John and Mary Keane and their four children, Michael, Annie, Jacob, and Clare, battle the tumultuous political, social, and spiritual upheavals of the 1950s and 1960s.

In a small Ontario town in the 1960s, a young girl's life is forever changed after she learns a dark family secret and learns the power of forgiveness.

Residents in a Newfoundland town--including teenage Colleen, an ecoterrorist drawn to alligators; Beverly, her grieving, widowed mother; Colleen's aunt Madeleine, a filmmaker trying to complete her greatest work before her death; and nineteen-year-old Frank, who has lost his mother to cancer and is being targeted by a sociopathic Russian sailor--wish for redemption while struggling with their obsessions.