Families -- Fiction
Found in 20 Collections and/or Records:
All the Time in the World, 2020
"After moving to her mother's hometown to help care for her estranged grandmother, Jericka Walker is struck by secrets about her mother's own abandonment and must learn to reconcile her memories of her mom and their relationship with revelations about her family's past, all while coming to terms with own sexuality and a new, burgeoning crush." -- Abstract
An outside curiosity, 2009
An Outside Curiosity is a novel charting the demise of a small community on Eilean Fior, a fictional island west of Scotland. It focuses particularly on George and Maureen McCloud, owners of the island's only guesthouse, and their three children: Barry, F
Colour, 2010
"Colour is a twelve minute still image short film. The film portrays a unique relationship between a young girl and a toy seller and the influence of his tales with moral lessons on the girl's outlook to life. She breaks the shackles that is imposed on her by her parents and learns to embrace life and especially youth." -- Abstract
Dayiah, 2021
Fitted sheet, 2017
The first half of a young adult novel centering around an up-and-coming YouTube star, deciding between family and fame. --Abstract.
Frederick Reiken's "Day for Night" Collection
The collection contains the proofs, notes, and cover designs of Frederick's book "Day for Night". There is also a bound uncorrected advance proof and a hardcopy of the published book.
Gray house : chapters 1-6, 2015
First six chapters of a novel that follows siblings who grew up under very different circumstances with their kind-hearted mother and domineering father. Now, estranged from each other and from their parents, they have been called home for one last weekend, so that they can put their dementia-ridden mother into a nursing home. --Abstract.
Home of the Cuckoos, 2021
Optic nerve, 2016
First six chapters of a novel about Kikai Sato, a Japanese-American bookmaker struggling to make it in New York. She is asked by Akiyo, her yakuza-boss brother, to return to Kyoto to do him one last favor: Take out their father's eyes and return them to him for a cash reward.--Abstract.
Pemberley, 2016
"A novel excerpt about Pem Randall, a young lawyer who suddenly loses her mother, the only family she has. After her mother's death, Pem is forced to re-evaluate her close but complicated relationship with her mother." --Abstract.
Rose creek farm, 2012
At the request of her brother Matt, Rachel returns home to her uncle's farmhouse after a three-year absence to find the land changed. Matt reveals their uncle Tobias has been renting out increasing portions of the land. Now Tobias plans to terminate the l
Sparrow in the Storm: A Novel, 2019
Spencer Family Adventure, 2023
Sunflowers and Other Stories, 2016
The Corbinston inheritance, 2009
The Corbinston Inheritance is the first five chapters of a multigenerational novel set in New York. It follows two families over four generations, as the firstborn sons come of age and must prepare to deal with their father's legacies, and accept or rejec
The kept, 2007
The Kept' is about a family, religion, and the overwhelming grip of guilt and vengeance. -- abstract.
The Silent Whistle, 2022
"19-year-old girl Ming is a loner who works the night shift at a convenience store. One day near the spring festival, her neighbor Rui invites her for a "special" dinner, which summons up her hidden past…" -- Abstract
Well-Known Stranger: Essays and Stories, 2019
Winter's Passing, 2021
"Winter's Passing is a coming-of-age narrative short film. Due to his mother's untimely death and his father's remarriage, an 8-year-old boy has to live with his grandfather who runs a small urn shop. While reluctantly staying at the shop and trying to return to his father, he meets a woman who wants to buy two identical urns. Through their secret deal, the boy gradually learns the meanings of loss and grief." -- Abstract