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by Judith Guest
After his brother's death and his own attempt to follow, seventeen-year-old Conrad Jarrett comes home to a family that would rather not speak of any of it. Judith Guest's 1976 debut looks steadily at grief, therapy and a mother who cannot bend. The novel behind the Oscar-winning film, and quieter than it.
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Allen Levi
A mysterious traveler named Theo drifts into a small Georgia town and quietly changes the people who take him in. Allen Levi's debut is unhurried and gentle — a meditation on friendship, grief, and grace with no villain to speak of, just ordinary kindness given room to matter.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
A lonely young dreamer wanders St. Petersburg during the city's pale summer nights and meets Nastenka, a young woman waiting for a lover who promised to return. Over four nights they share their stories, and he falls quietly in love. A short, tender classic about loneliness and hope.
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Marilynne Robinson
In 1956, John Ames — a preacher in a small Iowa town, old and ailing — begins a long letter to the young son he won't live to see grow up. What emerges is a life's accounting: his father and his abolitionist grandfather, a friendship that has cost him, and a hard-won gratitude for ordinary light. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize.
