Contemporary

If your book club likes discussing thought-provoking issues like mental health, the immigrant experience, poverty and interracial marriage, then try THE STORY HOUR by Thrity Umrigar. Free printable discussion questions for your next book club discussion.
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TLC Book Tour: The Story Hour Book Review and Discussion Questions

The Story Hour Book Review and Discussion Questions Synopsis from Goodreads: From the critically beloved, bestselling author of The World We Found and The Space Between Us, whom the New York Times Book Review calls a “perceptive and . . . piercing writer,” comes a profound, heartbreakingly honest novel about friendship, family, secrets, forgiveness, and…

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An Unforgettable Contemporary Fiction set in India: The Forgotten Daughter by Renita d’Silva

Synopsis from Goodreads: ‘You were adopted’. Three simple words, in a letter accompanying her parent’s will, tear Nisha’s carefully ordered world apart. Raised in England, by her caring but emotionally reserved parents, Nisha has never been one to take risks. Now, with the scrawled address of an Indian convent begins a search for the mother…

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Historical Fiction Set During the Space Race: Baby Rocket by Stephanie Smith Book Review

Synopsis from Goodreads: “Baby Rocket” is the name of a child who, in 1966, was abandoned by her suicidal mother and later found by a policeman in the seat of a children’s rocket ride on Cape Canaveral. The novel is the story of this child’s (Clementine Dance) adulthood discovery of an abandonment she does not…