Set in the Chicken Hill neighborhood of Pottstown, Pennsylvania, during the 1920s and 1930s, the novel follows the intersecting lives of Black and Jewish residents centered around a neighborhood grocery.

Thirteen interrelated stories trace a network of people connected to a record executive and his assistant across several decades. The pieces jump in time and viewpoint, following mostly self-destructive characters whose lives turn in unforeseen directions as they age.

A multigenerational family saga that traces a Greek-American family's migration, domestic life, and inherited biology which shapes one child's unusual development.

A woman who has left a life tied to intelligence work is living overseas when a chain of events forces secrets from her past back into play, putting family and identity at risk.

Several loosely connected characters across different eras encounter anomalies that call into question the nature of reality, time, and memory.

An elderly Congregational minister composes an extended letter to his young son late in life, recounting his own family history, the tensions between pacifism and militant abolitionism in his forebears, and the spiritual convictions that shape his sense of duty and affection.

Presented through a collage of documents, memoir excerpts, and alternate accounts, the novel orients on a secretive, immensely wealthy financier and the contested stories about him and his wife.

An anonymous narrator, a North Vietnamese mole embedded in the South Vietnamese army, recounts life after the fall of Saigon while living among a South Vietnamese exile community in the United States.

An illicit kiss at a 1960s christening fractures two marriages and eventually results in a blended family. Over roughly fifty years the novel follows six children whose summers and lives intersect, tracing how one adult mistake reshapes relationships, loyalties, and personal trajectories across decades.

Two young people from different social backgrounds form a fraught, recurring relationship from secondary school into university.

Set in Nazi-era Germany, the novel follows a young girl who acquires books and navigates life in an adoptive household while war encroaches on daily routines. The narration comes from Death, offering an outside, occasionally amused perspective on civilians, loss, and the act of reading.

An upper-class girl makes a misjudgment with far-reaching consequences; the novel follows the fallout across pre-war, wartime, and later life, and includes a self-aware reflection on writing and responsibility.