An aging Midwestern couple prepares for a final family Christmas while their three adult children, each entangled in personal and professional crises, converge around longstanding resentments and private failures.

A married lesbian couple becomes emotionally distant after one partner returns from a disastrous deep-sea dive. The novel tracks the aftermath: attempts at reconnection, the survivor’s altered presence, and the slow accumulation of dread tied to the sea and loss.

Set chiefly in New Jersey with ties to the Dominican Republic, the novel follows Oscar de León — a lonely, pop-culture–obsessed young man — and his family across generations as they live under the shadow of a transatlantic curse linked to historical brutality.

Three apparently separate family tragedies — a child's disappearance, a domestic killing, and an inexplicable murder — form the puzzle around a private investigator who reconstructs lives through interviews, documents, and visits.

A first-person narrator recalls growing up at an elite boarding school in an alternate late-20th-century England and the friendships and loyalties formed there while an institutional ethical situation quietly shapes their lives.

A first-person account by an English butler who undertakes a road trip and uses the journey to recall years of service at a great house. The narrator reconstructs past events and relationships while confronting what his lifelong commitment to duty has cost him.

Set primarily inside an Oregon psychiatric hospital, the narrative is told through the vantage of a patient who presents as deaf and mute. The plot focuses on tensions between the ward’s controlling staff and a charismatic newcomer whose actions unsettle the ward’s fragile order.

A contemporary romance centered on a married couple whose relationship is strained by loss and psychological pressure. The story follows their attempts to navigate grief, miscommunication, and the decision points that will determine whether the marriage endures or falls apart.

Billy Pilgrim, an American who served in World War II, experiences a fractured relationship with time after the war. The novel follows episodes of his life — including his capture and survival of the Allied firebombing of Dresden — presented out of chronological order.