Family life in literature

• Grant Allen: The Woman Who Did (published in 1895) (a "New Woman[?]" has a child but refuses to get married)
• Christine Bell[?]: The Perez Family[?] (Cuban exiles in Florida)
• Kate Bingham[?]: Mummy's Legs[?] (three generations of women thinking they can do without men)
• Malcolm Bradbury[?]: The History Man (trendy sociology lecturer in permissive 1970s England)
• Lily Brett[?]: Just Like That (Holocaust survivors and their children in contemporary New York)
• James M. Cain: Mildred Pierce (ungrateful daughter)
• Erskine Caldwell[?]: Tobacco Road[?] (poor whites trying to make ends meet in the American South)
• Ernest Callenbach[?]: Ecotopia (novel)[?] (green utopia devoid of conventional sexual morality)
• Ivy Compton-Burnett[?]: The Present and the Past[?] and all her other novels (love, hate and incest in Edwardian England)
• Amanda Craig: A Vicious Circle and the other novels in her cycle (satires of contemporary Britain)
• Helen Dunmore[?]: Your Blue-Eyed Boy[?] (the past catching up with a mother of two)
• Jeffrey Eugenides: The Virgin Suicides (five sisters committing suicide in quick succession in surburban America)
• Joy Fielding[?]: Kiss Mommy Goodbye[?] (divorce, battle over custody, and subsequent kidnapping)
• David Gates: Jernigan[?] (dysfunctional family headed by a hard-drinking, slightly paranoid father)
• Kaye Gibbons[?]: Ellen Foster[?] (little girl looking for love and protection)
• Kent Haruf[?]: The Tie That Binds (several generations of a farming family on the Great Plains of Colorado)
• Nick Hornby: About a Boy (single mother suffering from depression)
• Christopher Isherwood: All the Conspirators[?] (evil mother)
• P.D. James: Innocent Blood[?] (blood ties are stronger than anything else)
• Tama Janowitz[?]: By the Shores of Gitchee Gumee[?] (white trash heading for Hollywood to realize their American Dream[?])
• Nella Larsen: Passing (African American wife and mother torn between allegiance to her race and her friendship with another woman)
• Nancy Mitford: The Pursuit of Love (eccentric aristocratic family spend the interwar years in Britain falling in and out of love)
• Bharati Mukherjee[?]: Jasmine (Indian immigrant ends up as the mother in a patchwork family[?])
• Marge Piercy[?]: Woman On the Edge of Time[?] (feminist utopia advocating complete equality between men and women)
• Bernice Rubens: A Solitary Grief (a father unable to cope with the fact that his child has Down's syndrome)
• Anne Tyler[?]: A Patchwork Planet[?] (a young father as the black sheep of the family)

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