I’m looking for some contemporary fiction, not looking for pure romance or mystery/thriller, but not opposed to book with such elements.
I don’t care if the issue in question is family drama or friendship drama or anything else. Preferably there should be some bitterness left complicating things.
Thanks to anyone who can help me 🙏📚
by MacabrePomegranade
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You need to stop what you’re doing right now and order a copy of Pat Conroy’s “The Prince of Tides” “the water is wide” and “beach music”. Just take off work for the next week and read them all
story house by Timothy Taylor is about two half-brothers who hate each other. it’s nuanced and complex.
The God of Small Things
Local Custom by Sharon Lee.
Master trader Er Thom knows the local custom of Liaden is to be matched with a proper bride and provide his prominent clan Korval with an heir. Yet his heart is immersed in another universe, influenced by another culture, and lost to a woman not of his world. And to take a Terran wife, such as scholar Anne Davis, is to risk his honor and reputation. But when he discovers that their brief encounter years before has resulted in the birth of a child, even more is at stake than anyone imagined. Now an interstellar scandal has erupted, a bitter war between two families—galaxies apart—has begun, and the only hope for Er Thom and Anne is a sacrifice neither is prepared to make. . . .
Sandor Marai, *Embers*.