Intergenerational Family Sagas
Check out these sweeping stories of families across time and place. (Created July 2025)
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The Wind Knows My Name
Allende blends two bitter tales of separation: in 1938 Vienna, Samuel Adler is placed on a Kindertransport train by his mother so that he can escape the Nazis, while in 2019 Arizona, Anita Díaz is pulled from her mother at the U.S. border after they have fled El Salvador for safety. (Library Journal)
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An Unlasting Home
A multigenerational saga spanning Lebanon, Iraq, India, the United States, and Kuwait brings to life the triumphs and failures of three generations of Arab women. (NoveList)
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Mother Doll
Prize-winning author Katya Apekina’s Mother Doll is a sharp and visceral nesting doll of a novel, about four generations of mothers and daughters and the inherited trauma cast by Russian history. (NoveList)
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A Reason to See You Again
The Cohen women—mother Frieda and daughters Shelly ("the smart one") and Nancy ("the pretty one")—wobble and weave their way through the late 20th and early 21st centuries. (Library Journal)
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Ædnan
An epic poem, much honored in Sweden since its publication in 2018, that charts the fortunes of a Sámi community against opposing nationalisms...A sharp-edged tale in verse of colonial suppression, resistance, and survival. (Kirkus)
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I'll Be Right Here
Immigrating alone from Paris to New York after the crucible of World War II, young Gazala becomes friends with two spirited sisters, Anne and Alma. When Gazala’s lost, beloved brother, Samir, joins her in Manhattan, this contentious, inseparable foursome makes their way into the twenty-first century, becoming the beating heart of a multigenerational found family. (NoveList)
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The Wren, the Wren
The exceptional, multigarlanded Irish writer returns with a three-generation, woman-centered family portrait marked by “inheritance, of both trauma and of wonder,” and melodious, poetic echoes. (Kirkus)
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The Absolute
Argentine writer Guebel’s exceptional English-language debut serves up the multigenerational tale of the historical Deliuskin-Scriabin family, a motley bunch of artists, scientists, and politicians. (Publishers Weekly)
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The Witches of El Paso
Two women must combine their magical powers and find a little girl lost to time and space in this moving novel about heritage and heartbreak. (Booklist)
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Grown Women
Four generations of Black American women navigate the peril and love of the mother-daughter bond. (Kirkus)
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