A Complicated Kindness
by Miriam Toews | 
Irma Voth
by Miriam Toews | 
The Shipping News
by Annie Proulx | 
Eleanor Rigby
by Douglas Coupland | 
Lullabies for Little Criminals
by Heather O'Neill | 
All My Puny Sorrows
by Miriam Toews | 
Good To a Fault
by Marina Endicott | 
Small Great Things
by Jodi Picoult | 
Prodigal Summer
by Barbara Kingsolver | 
Don't Let Me Go
by Catherine Ryan Hyde | 
Olive Kitteridge
by Elizabeth Strout | 
We Need to Talk About Kevin
by Lionel Shriver | 
A Little Life
by Hanya Yanagihara | 
Beach Music
by Pat Conroy | 
The Memory Keeper's Daughter
by Kim Edwards | 
Secret Daughter
by Shilpi Somaya Gowda | 
Our Souls at Night
by Kent Haruf | 
When You Were Older
by Catherine Ryan Hyde | 
Freedom
by Jonathan Franzen | 
A Mother's Confession
by Kelly Rimmer |
Lucy Von Alstyne sends fictitious letters to her friend Alicia, pretending to be the father of Alicia's twins, and the two welfare mothers and their five children set off on a journey to find him, facing along the way the complications of living in poverty and raising fatherless children.