American Classics
A selection of classic fiction by American authors. (Updated March 2018)
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Ceremony
White-Indigenous biracial Tayo returns to the states after World War II with severe PTSD. When his doctor sends him home to improve his mental state, he revisits the demons that await him there as well.
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East of Eden
Salinas Valley, CA is home to two families- the Trasks and the Hamiltons- whose destinies fatally intertwine, replaying the rivalry of Cain and Abel.
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The Joy Luck Club
A novel about the weekly mahjong game between four Chinese women who share their early life stories of China before immigrating to San Francisco.
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A Confederacy of Dunces
Follows the life of antihero Ignatius Reilly, a 30-year-old living with his mother in blue-collar New Orleans.
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Indian Horse
Ontario First-Nations Saul Indian Horse tells the story of his emotionally distraught life, from being taken by authorities and put in a Catholic residential school to the violence and abuse he experienced into early adulthood.
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The Color Purple
Set in 1930 rural Georgia, Celie, a young Black woman writes letters to God as she is separated from her only friend, her sister, and sold to an abusive man as his wife.
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