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Sparrow
the realist
You love stories about actual life. You love messy families, big feelings, and the books everyone's talking about.
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Contemporary Fiction, Women's Fiction, Memoir from the library. Pick a mood to change the shelf. What do the tags mean?
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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Soulmate and Darling Girls comes the story of Mad Mabel. They called it murder. She called it justice. In 1959, at just fifteen years of age, Mabel Waller became the youngest Australian in history to be…
Across a century, two women's lives intertwine through an impossible bond. In the early 1900s, Helen McCulloch dreams of adventure and family in the rolling hills of western Pennsylvania. But tragedy strikes, shattering her carefully built life and forcing her to navigate loss, resilience, and…
From the indie rockstar Japanese Breakfast, an unflinching, deeply moving memoir about growing up dual-heritage, Korean food, losing her Korean mother, and forging her own identity. 'I bawled my eyes out, but I also loved it and I hope you do too' - Dua Lipa…
A darkly comic and warm-hearted novel about an old man on a cross-country mission to reunite with his high school crush—bringing together his adult daughter, two orphaned kids, and a cat who can predict death—by the beloved author of Rabbit Cake and Unlikely Animals “A…
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Authors who write for Sparrows
Authors on Fiction Flock writing contemporary fiction, women's fiction, memoir.
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