Excerpts & reviews from exceptional books with a family saga as a central theme

Everything We Never Had

by Randy Ribay

Hardcover: Aug 2024 | Paperback: Aug 2025

From the author of the National Book Award finalist Patron Saints of Nothing comes an emotionally charged, moving novel about four generations of Filipino American boys grappling with identity, masculinity, and their fraught father-son relationships.

Enlightenment

A Novel

by Sarah Perry

Hardcover: Jun 2024 | Paperback: Jun 2025

A dazzling new work of literary fiction from the author of The Essex Serpent, a story of love and astronomy told over the course of twenty years through the lives of two improbable best friends.

Long Island Compromise

A Novel

by Taffy Brodesser-Akner

Hardcover: Jul 2024 | Paperback: May 2025

An exhilarating novel about one American family, the dark moment that shatters their suburban paradise, and the wild legacy of trauma and inheritance, from the New York Times bestselling author of Fleishman Is in Trouble.

The Covenant of Water

by Abraham Verghese

Hardcover: May 2023 | Paperback: May 2025

Winner: BookBrowse Fiction Award 2023

From the New York Times–bestselling author of Cutting for Stone comes a stunning and magisterial epic of love, faith, and medicine, set in Kerala, South India, and following three generations of a family ...

The Alternatives

A Novel

by Caoilinn Hughes

Hardcover: Apr 2024 | Paperback: Apr 2025

From the writer Anthony Doerr calls "a massive talent," the story of four brilliant Irish sisters, orphaned in childhood, who scramble to reconnect when the oldest disappears into the Irish countryside.

Happy Land

by Dolen Perkins-Valdez

Hardcover: Apr 2025

A woman learns the incredible story of a real-life American Kingdom—and her family's ties to it—in this enthralling novel from the New York Times bestselling, NAACP Image Award-winning author of Take My Hand.

The Usual Desire to Kill

A Novel

by Camilla Barnes

Hardcover: Apr 2025

An often hilarious, surprisingly moving portrait of a long-married couple, seen through the eyes of their wickedly observant daughter—for fans of A Man Called Ove and The Royal Tenenbaums.

The Sicilian Inheritance

A Novel

by Jo Piazza

Hardcover: Apr 2024 | Paperback: Apr 2025

From bestselling author and award-winning journalist Jo Piazza, comes a transporting novel rooted in the author's own family history about a long-awaited trip to Sicily, a disputed inheritance, and a family secret that some will kill to protect ...

Real Americans

A Novel

by Rachel Khong

Hardcover: Apr 2024 | Paperback: Mar 2025

From the award-winning author of Goodbye, Vitamin: How far would you go to shape your own destiny? An exhilarating novel of American identity that spans three generations in one family and asks: What makes us who we are? And how inevitable are our ...

Icarus

by K. Ancrum

Hardcover: Mar 2024 | Paperback: Mar 2025

Perfect for fans of Adam Silvera and Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, this suspenseful queer YA romance from critically acclaimed author K. Ancrum reimagines the tale of Icarus as a star-crossed love story between a young art...

The Last Bloodcarver

(The Last Bloodcarver Duology, Book 1)

by Vanessa Le

Hardcover: Mar 2024 | Paperback: Mar 2025

"A gritty world filled with a beautifully crafted cast and an intricate magic system. A smart, lush, and utterly compelling read." —Marie Lu, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Legend

Held

A Novel

by Anne Michaels

Hardcover: Jan 2024 | Paperback: Mar 2025

A breathtaking and ineffable new novel from the author of the international best sellers Fugitive Pieces and The Winter Vault—a novel of love and loyalty across generations, at once sweeping and intimate