Custom Book List for Aniko Gaal - October 2021


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3.5 stars
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Because you like Jane Smiley. Both write character-drive literary fiction that delves into the psyches of their protagonists.
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"From the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of The Monsters of Templeton and Arcadia, an exhilarating novel about marriage, creativity, art, and perception. Fates and Furies is a literary masterpiece that defies expectation. A dazzling examination of a marriage, it is also a portrait of creative partnership written by one of the best writers of her generation. Every story has two sides. Every relationship has two perspectives. And sometimes,...
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4.3 stars
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Because you like Willa Cather. This has similar feel; Homespun, moving, Elegaic
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From the unsettled lives of a small-town teacher struggling to raise two boys alone in the face of their mother's retreat from life, a pregnant teenage girl with nowhere to go, and two elderly bachelor farmers emerges a new vision of life and family as their diverse destinies intertwine.
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4 stars
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Because you like Kazu Ishiguro
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Follows the story of American heiress Isabel as she visits Europe to find her own destiny, is pursued by suitors, and ultimately must make a tragic choice.
Book cover for "The sense of an ending"
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3.9 stars
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Because you like Remains of the Day
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Follows a middle-aged man as he reflects on a past he thought was behind him, until he is presented with a legacy that forces him to reconsider different decisions, and to revise his place in the world.