DIY Book Club | American Fiction

An American marriage [Book Club]

Jones, Tayari

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Newlyweds, Celestial and Roy, are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. He is a young executive and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting career.

Asymmetry [Book Club Set]

Halliday, Lisa

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Told in three distinct and uniquely compelling sections, Asymmetry explores the imbalances that spark and sustain many of our most dramatic human relations: inequities in age, power, talent, wealth, fame, geography, and justice.

At the edge of the orchard [Book Club Set]

Chevalier, Tracy

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What happens when you can't run any further from your past? Ohio, 1838. James and Sadie Goodenough have settled in the Black Swamp, planting apple trees to claim the land as their own.

The aviator's wife [Book Club Set]

Benjamin, Melanie

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When Anne Morrow, a shy college senior with hidden literary aspirations, travels to Mexico City to spend Christmas with her family, she meets Colonel Charles Lindbergh, fresh off his celebrated 1927 solo flight across the Atlantic.

If Beale Street could talk [Book Club Set]

Baldwin, James

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The narrator of Baldwin?s novel is Tish nineteen, and pregnant. Her lover Fonny, father of her child, is in jail accused of rape. Flashbacks from their love affair are woven into the compelling struggle of two families to win justice for Fonny.

Go set a watchman [Book Club Set]

Lee, Harper, 1926-

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From Harper Lee comes a landmark new novel set two decades after her beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece, To Kill a Mockingbird. Maycomb, Alabama. Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch – 'Scout' – returns home from New York City to visit her ageing father, Atticus.

The woman upstairs [Book Club Set]

Messud, Claire, 1966-

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