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Ties That Bind: Unhappy Families
Stories involving unhappy family relationships
Related Genres
Ties That Bind: General, Parent/Child, Siblings, Spouses, Generations, Unconventional Families, Happy Families
Subdivisions
Family Tensions | Hidden Secrets | Broken Families | Tragedies | Other
Authors & Titles
Family Tensions
- Ansay, A. Manette: Vinegar Hill

- Banks, Iain: The Steep Approach to Garbadale

- Battle, Lois: Bed & Breakfast

- Connell, Evan S.: Mr. & Mrs. Bridge series
- Mrs. Bridge

- Mr. Bridge

- Jones, Luanne: Heathen Girls

- Koppelman, Amy: A Mouthful of Air

- Major, Marcus: A Family Affair

- Miller, Adrienne: The Coast of Akron

- Pywell, Sharon: Everything After

- Robinson, Roxana: Cost

- Shattuck, Jessica: The Hazards of Good Breeding

- Tilghman, Christopher: Mason's Retreat

Hidden Secrets
- Adams, Poppy: The Sister

- Berne, Suzanne: The Ghost at the Table

- Beverly-Whittemore, Miranda: Set Me Free

- Beyer, Marcel: Spies

- Chamberlain, Diane: Secret Lives

- Dilke, Annabel: A Perfect Revenge

- Docx, Edward: Pravda

- Dymmoch, Michael Allen: M.I.A.

- Enright, Anne: The Gathering

- Fletcher, Susan: Eve Green

- Fowler, Earlene: The Saddlemaker's Wife

- Francis, Patry: The Liar's Diary

- Fugard, Lisa: Skinner's Drift

- Grimbert, Philippe: Memory

- Huston, Nancy: Fault Lines

- Hustvedt, Siri: The Sorrows of an American

- Joern, Pamela Carter: The Floor of the Sky

- McGhee, Alison: Shadow Baby

- McInerney, Monica: Family Baggage

- Melnyczuk, Askold: The House of Widows

- Minot, Eliza: The Brambles

- O'Farrell, Maggie: The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox

- Shreve, Anita: The Pilot's Wife

- Shreve, Susan Richards: A Country of Strangers

- Shreve, Susan Richards: The Visiting Physician

- Sloan, Susan R.: Behind Closed Doors

- Summers, E.W.: This Never Happened

- Swift, Graham: Tomorrow

- White, Karen: The Memory of Water

Broken Families
- Bank, Zauzsa: The Swimmer

- Bills, Greg: Consider This Home

- Corman, Avery: A Perfect Divorce

- Craig, Peter: The Martini Shot

- Epstein, Leslie: San Remo Drive

- Evans, Nicholas: The Divide

- Lychack, William: The Wasp Eater

- Martinez, Manuel Luis: Drift

- Smith, Peter J.: A Good Family

- Tanney, Katherine: Carousel of Progress

- Veitch, Kate: Without a Backward Glance

- Ward, Amanda Eyre: How To Be Lost

Tragedies
- Allen, Dwight: Judge

- Ansay, A. Manette: Blue Water

- Bacon, Charlotte: Split Estate

- Bausch, Robert: The Gypsy Man

- Blakeslee, Mermer: In Dark Water

- Boswell, Robert: Century's Son

- Brown, Rosellen: Civil Wars

- Clarke, Breena: River, Cross My Heart

- Daley-Clarke, Donna: Lazy Eye

- Dark, Alice Elliott: Think of England

- Guest, Judith: The Tarnished Eye

- Havazelet, Ehud: Bearing the Body

- Hermann, Nellie: The Cure for Grief

- Inclán, Jessica Barksdale: When You Go Away

- Johnson, Rebecca: And Sometimes Why

- Jones, Tayari: The Untelling

- Kuhlman, Evan: Wolf Boy

- Lewis, Pam: Perfect Family

- Mann, William J.: Object of Desire

- Milner, Donna: After River

- Mitchard, Jacqueline: Cappadora Family series
- The Deep End of the Ocean

- No Time To Wave Goodbye

- Noble, Elizabeth: Things I Want My Daughters To Know

- O'Nan, Stewart: Songs for the Missing

- Raleigh, Michael: In the Castle of the Flynns

- Schumacher, Julie: The Body is Water

- Schwartz, John Burnham: Reservation Road

- Smith, Robert Kimmel: Jane's House

- Strayed, Cheryl: Torch

- Swick, Marly: Evening News

- Woodward, Margaret: Still Waters

Other
- Arnoldi, Katie: The Wentworths

- Azzopardi, Trezza: The Hiding Place

- Baggott, Julianna: The Miss America Family

- Burns, Elizabeth: Tilt

- Busch, Frederick: Girls

- Chen, Ying: Ingratitude

- Clark, Robert: In the Deep Midwinter

- Cochrane, Mick: Flesh Wounds

- Cody, Paul: So Far Gone

- Coe, Jonathan: The Rain before It Falls

- Cook, Thomas H.: Red Leaves

- Cookson, Catherine: The Year of the Virgins

- Coupland, Douglas: All Families Are Psychotic

- Forster, Gwynne: Blue From Down Deep

- Goldhagen, Shari: Family and Other Accidents

- Haigh, Jennifer: The Condition

- Harrison, Jim: True North

- Hoffman, Alice: The Story Sisters

- Kabak, Carrie: Cover the Butter

- Minot, George: The Blue Bowl

- Morton, Kate: The House at Riverton

- Murphy, Yannick: Here They Come

- Page, Jean Reynolds: The Space Between Before and After

- Parks, Tim: Judge Savage

- Petrakis, Harry Mark: The Orchards of Ithaca

- Pywell, Sharon: What Happened to Henry

- Ryan, Patrick: Send Me

- Sebold, Alice: The Almost Moon

- See, Carolyn: There Will Never Be Another You

- Stern, Richard Martin: The Will

- Thayer, Nancy: An Act of Love

- Vida, Nina: Between Sisters

- Willett, Sabin: Present Value

- Winthrop, Elizabeth Hartley: December

- Wittenborn, Dirk: Pharmakon

- Woodward, Gerard: I'll Go To Bed at Noon

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