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Anxious about her prospects after leaving a stagnant job, Tambudzai finds herself living in a run-down youth hostel in downtown Harare.

Sherry has struggled all her life to understand who she is, where she comes from, and, most importantly, why her mother slapped her cheek one summer afternoon.

Denise and Derrek Shaw are the perfect American couple. Happily married for 15 years, they have a wonderful daughter, successful careers, and a beautiful house.

After leaving her two young sons with her mother, Betty Jean, Trinetta disappears.

The Reverend Curtis Black hasn't spoken to his son, Matthew, in over a year. Then there's Dillon Whitfield-Curtis's long-lost-son-who has settled in as a member of the Black family.

Until the moment he receives a frantic call from his father, Daniel believed his parents were headed into a peaceful retirement.

Every August, four women would gather to spend a week at the beach, renting a new house each year. But when one of the girls dies tragically, their vacations are brought to a halt.

The Turners have lived on Yarrow Street for over fifty years.

Edith is a widowed landlady who rents apartments in her Brooklyn brownstone to an unlikely collection of humans, all crippled in various ways-in spirit, in mind, in body, in heart.

Celine's marriage is at a crossroads when she is diagnosed with breast cancer.

This novel follows a young girl as she reaches adolescence and slowly discovers sexual happiness and love, until one day, near the end of her life, she finds herself alone.

At seventy-two, Johnny Ribkins shouldn't have such problems: he's got one week to come up with the money he stole from his mobster boss or it's curtains.

For sixteen-year-old Tiffany Sly, life hasn't been safe or normal for a while.

At twelve years old, Cornelius secretly takes over his father's job at a silent film theater in New York's East Village.

When Esther Thorel, wife of a master silk weaver, rescues Sara Kemp from a brothel, she thinks she is doing God's will, but her good deed is not returned.