I don’t know if this style of books has a name. I’m thinking Anxious People or Remarkably Bright Creatures, which have stories about different people that cross paths and become parts of the same story in the end.
Some examples from other art media are the kids TV show Phineas and Ferb (where P&F, Candace and Perry’s storylines would cross) or the TV show Arrested Development with same style in each episode.
Not fantasy, I’m looking for something that could be real. Just need the subplots to fit neat as jigsaw puzzle – I find a whole different kind of satisfaction with this!
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“The Exiles” by Christina Baker Kline. Composite characters. Historical fiction. Both stories run in same timeline and merge about half way in. Written in third person.
“Before We Were Yours” by Lisa Wingate. Composite fictional characters based on a true story. Stories run on different timelines but come together at the end. Written in first person.
[https://www.insider.com/georgia-tann-tennessee-children-home-society-survivors-speak-out-2019-12](https://www.insider.com/georgia-tann-tennessee-children-home-society-survivors-speak-out-2019-12)
Both have great audiobook narration.
[There There](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36692478) by Tommy Orange
[The Rabbit Hutch](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/122769174) by Tess Gunty
I think Barbara Trapido is excellent at this, particularly in *Juggling* and *The Travelling Hornplayer*.
The Giver by Lois Lowry is the first book in a quartet
The Darkangel Trilogy by Meredith Ann Pierce
Oryx and Crake is the first book in a trilogy by Margaret Atwood
She Who Became the Sun and He Who Drowned the World by Shelley Parker Chan
Also. “The Things We Can Not Say” by Kelly Rimmer. Current day Florida family and German-occupied Poland family. 3 descendent generations of a sole matriarch beautifully written. Written in first person. Also a fantastic audiobook experience with two narrators doing the two stories. A truly unique story composition and style that works beautifully. Bittersweet throughout.
A Prayer for Owen Meany, by John Irving
Small World by Jonathan Evison
A Visit From the Goon Squad and Candy House by Jennifer Egan
Kitchens of the Great Midwest by J Ryan Stradal
Council of Dolls by Susan Power
The Overstory by Richard Powers
The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner
John Rechy, *Bodies and Souls*.
James Joyce’s “Ulysses”
Richard Power’s “The Overstory”
Anthony Doerr’s “Cloud Cuckoo Land”
Sequoia Nagamatsu’s “How High We Go in the Dark”