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Family life in literature
Grant Allen
:
The Woman Who Did
(published in
1895
) (a "
New Woman
" has a child but refuses to
get married
)
The Perez Family (
Cuban
exiles in
Florida
)
Mummy's Legs (three generations of women thinking they can do without men)
Just Like That
(
Holocaust
survivors and their children in contemporary
New York
)
James M. Cain
:
Mildred Pierce
(ungrateful daughter)
Erskine Caldwell
:
Tobacco Road
(poor whites trying to make ends meet in the American South)
Ernest Callenbach
:
Ecotopia
(
green
utopia
devoid of conventional
sexual morality
)
Ivy Compton-Burnett
:
The Present and the Past
and all her other novels (love, hate and
incest
in
Edwardian
England)
Amanda Craig
:
A Vicious Circle
and the other novels in her cycle (
satires
of contemporary Britain)
Helen Dunmore
:
Your Blue-Eyed Boy
(the past catching up with a mother of two)
Jeffrey Eugenides
:
The Virgin Suicides
(five sisters committing
suicide
in quick succession in
surburban
America)
Joy Fielding
:
Kiss Mommy Goodbye
(
divorce
, battle over
custody
, and subsequent
kidnapping
)
David Gates
:
Jernigan
(dysfunctional family headed by a
hard-drinking
, slightly
paranoid
father)
Ellen Foster (little girl looking for love and protection)
The Tie That Binds
(several generations of a
farming
family on the
Great Plains
of
Colorado
)
Nick Hornby
:
About a Boy
(single mother suffering from
depression
)
Marsha Hunt
:
Joy
(family secrets)
Christopher Isherwood
:
All the Conspirators
(
evil
mother)
P.D. James
:
Innocent Blood
(blood ties are stronger than anything else)
Tama Janowitz
:
By the Shores of Gitchee Gumee
(
white trash
heading for
Hollywood
to realize their
American Dream
)
Nella Larsen
:
Passing
(
African American
wife and mother torn between allegiance to her race and her friendship with another woman)
Nancy Mitford
:
The Pursuit of Love
(eccentric aristocratic family spend the interwar years in Britain falling in and out of love)
Bharati Mukherjee
:
Jasmine
(
Indian
immigrant
ends up as the mother in a patchwork family)
Marge Piercy
:
Woman On the Edge of Time
(
feminist
utopia
advocating complete
equality
between men and women)
Bernice Rubens
:
A Solitary Grief
(a father unable to cope with the fact that his child has
Down's syndrome
)
Anne Tyler
:
A Patchwork Planet
(a young father as the black sheep of the family)
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Family saga
