Reader's Choice: Fiction Me-Sa

When a girl is born with Down’s syndrome, the nurse takes her away leaving her twin brother with the parents. Somehow the bound-together families survive when the long buried secret bursts into the open.

The very odd, but believable story of Cal, 41-year-old hermaphrodite, born as baby girl, Calliope. Tenderhearted saga of a Greek-American family harboring a genetic oddity.

Based on a World War II massacre in a small Tuscan village, this is the story of four Black American soldiers, a band of partisans, and an Italian boy who encounter a miracle.

Forcibly removed from the ancient village of Ein Hod by the newly formed state of Israel in 1948, the Abulhejas are moved into the Jenin refugee camp.

The Mothers is a surprising story about young love, a big secret in a small community--and the things that ultimately haunt us most. Set within a contemporary black community in Southern California, Brit Bennett's mesmerizing first novel is an emotionally perceptive story about community, love, and ambition. It begins with a secret.

The events of the story occupy a single June day in Central London as wealthy and fashionable society hostess Clarissa Dalloway is preparing for a party she is to give that evening.

A romantic comedy where a loving couple are torn apart by a false accusation and a bickering couple are brought together by friendly plotting.

A rich, intense, and generous-hearted story about two friends, Elena and Lila - this meticulous portrait of these two women is also the story of a nation and a touching meditation on the nature of friendship.

Henry Park has spent his entire life trying to become a true American--a native speaker. But even as the essence of his adopted country continues to elude him, his Korean heritage seems to drift further and further away.

The Nickel Boys is a devastating, driven narrative that showcases a great American novelist writing at the height of his powers. The book is based on the real story of a reform school in Florida that operated for one hundred and eleven years and warped the lives of thousands of children.

A sweeping historical novel about a dancehall girl and an orphan boy whose fates entangle over an old Chinese superstition about men who turn into tigers.

Olive Kitteridge, a retired teacher, deplores the changes taking place in her little town of Crosby, Maine.

Here is Olive, strangely content in her second marriage, still in an evolving relationship with her son and his family, encountering a cast of memorable characters in the seaside town of Crosby, Maine.

Little Dog writes a letter to a mother who cannot read, revealing a family history.

Looking back at a tragic event that occurred during his thirteenth year, Frank Drum explores how a complicated web of secrets, adultery, and betrayal shattered his Methodist family and their small 1961 Minnesota community.

A community service position helping an elderly woman clean out her home is the only thing keeping Molly out of juvie and worse. As she helps Vivian sort through her possessions and memories, Molly learns that she and Vivian aren't as different as they seem to be.

The science of botany and the art of storytelling merge to ingenious effect in Powers's magisterial new novel - a story in which people are merely the underbrush and the real protagonists are the trees that the human characters encounter.

Four generations of a poor Korean immigrant family fight to control their destiny in 20th-century Japan, exiled from a home they never knew.

A heartstrong story of family and romance, tribulation and tenacity, set on the High Plains east of Denver.

An alternate history of the 1940 national election in which Charles Lindbergh’s victory as President generates waves of anti-Semitism and strikes fear in the heart of every Jewish household.

There are few historical heroines as fascinating and controversial as Pope Joan, a woman whose hunger for knowledge and independent nature led her to pass as a man and ultimately to attain the high seat in Rome.

The perfect English butler and his reaction to the world of post World War II England are the subjects of this tragic portrayal. An existence of repression shuts out awareness and love.

A mother-son bond tempered by the eleven foot square space in which they are imprisoned, told by theson who knows nothing else.

A sweeping novel about two sisters--one the matriarch of a boisterous Irish Catholic family, the other a cloistered nun, hidden from the world--and the secret that drove them apart.