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Conflict of generations Fiction Family-owned business enterprises Fiction Fathers and sons Fiction Grandfathers Fiction Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) Fiction Lumber trade Fiction Michigan Fiction Models (Persons) Fiction Motion picture industry Fiction Upper Peninsula (Mich.) FictionGalm, Ruth
Summary: "Ruth Galm's spare, poetic debut novel, set in the American West of early Joan Didion, traces the drifting path of a young woman caught between generations as she skirts the law and her own oppressive anxiety. Into the Valley opens on the day in July 1967 when B. decides to pass her first counterfeit check and flee San Francisco for the Central Valley. B. is caught between generations. She's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GALZeineddine, Ghassan
Summary: "Spanning several decades, Ghassan Zeineddine's debut collection examines the diverse range and complexities of the Arab American community in Dearborn, Michigan. In ten tragicomic stories, Zeineddine explores themes of identity, generational conflicts, war trauma, migration, sexuality, queerness, home and belonging, and more. In Dearborn, a father teaches his son how to cheat the IRS and hide...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tin House 2023
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Summary: "[This novel] follows a group of children and their families on summer vacation at a lakeside mansion. The teenage narrator Eve and the other children are contemptuous of their parents, who spend the days and nights in drunken stupor. This tension heightens when a great storm arrives and throws the house and its residents into chaos. Named for a picture Bible given to Eve's little brother Jack,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MILBagshawe, Tilly.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BAGHarrison, Jim
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Pub. 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HARRIHarrison, Jim
Summary: The son of a wealthy family of timber barons struggles to reconcile himself with the damage his family has done to Michigan's Upper Peninsula--a scarring that cuts deeply into the fabric of his own family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2004
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1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL FIC HARHarrison, Jim
Summary: The scion of a family of wealthy timber barons, David Burkett has grown up with a father who is more a malevolent force than a father, and a mother made vague and numb by alcohol and pills. He and his sister Cynthia, a firecracker who scandalizes the family at fourteen by taking up with the son of their Finnish-Native American gardener, are mostly left to make their own way. As David comes to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2004