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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
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- Banks, Iain: The Steep Approach to Garbadale
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- Battle, Lois: Bed & Breakfast
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- Connell, Evan S.: Mr. & Mrs. Bridge series
- Mrs. Bridge
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- Mr. Bridge
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- Jones, Luanne: Heathen Girls
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- Koppelman, Amy: A Mouthful of Air
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- Major, Marcus: A Family Affair
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- Miller, Adrienne: The Coast of Akron
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- Pywell, Sharon: Everything After
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- Robinson, Roxana: Cost
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- Shattuck, Jessica: The Hazards of Good Breeding
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- Tilghman, Christopher: Mason's Retreat
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Hidden Secrets
- Adams, Poppy: The Sister
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- Berne, Suzanne: The Ghost at the Table
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- Beverly-Whittemore, Miranda: Set Me Free
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- Beyer, Marcel: Spies
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- Chamberlain, Diane: Secret Lives
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- Dilke, Annabel: A Perfect Revenge
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- Docx, Edward: Pravda
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- Dymmoch, Michael Allen: M.I.A.
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- Enright, Anne: The Gathering
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- Fletcher, Susan: Eve Green
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- Fowler, Earlene: The Saddlemaker's Wife
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- Francis, Patry: The Liar's Diary
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- Fugard, Lisa: Skinner's Drift
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- Grimbert, Philippe: Memory
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- Huston, Nancy: Fault Lines
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- Hustvedt, Siri: The Sorrows of an American
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- Joern, Pamela Carter: The Floor of the Sky
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- McGhee, Alison: Shadow Baby
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- McInerney, Monica: Family Baggage
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- Melnyczuk, Askold: The House of Widows
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- Minot, Eliza: The Brambles
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- O'Farrell, Maggie: The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
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- Shreve, Anita: The Pilot's Wife
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- Shreve, Susan Richards: A Country of Strangers
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- Shreve, Susan Richards: The Visiting Physician
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- Sloan, Susan R.: Behind Closed Doors
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- Summers, E.W.: This Never Happened
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- Swift, Graham: Tomorrow
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- White, Karen: The Memory of Water
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Broken Families
- Bank, Zauzsa: The Swimmer
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- Bills, Greg: Consider This Home
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- Corman, Avery: A Perfect Divorce
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- Craig, Peter: The Martini Shot
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- Epstein, Leslie: San Remo Drive
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- Evans, Nicholas: The Divide
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- Lychack, William: The Wasp Eater
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- Martinez, Manuel Luis: Drift
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- Smith, Peter J.: A Good Family
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- Tanney, Katherine: Carousel of Progress
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- Veitch, Kate: Without a Backward Glance
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- Ward, Amanda Eyre: How To Be Lost
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Tragedies
- Allen, Dwight: Judge
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- Ansay, A. Manette: Blue Water
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- Bacon, Charlotte: Split Estate
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- Bausch, Robert: The Gypsy Man
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- Blakeslee, Mermer: In Dark Water
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- Boswell, Robert: Century's Son
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- Brown, Rosellen: Civil Wars
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- Clarke, Breena: River, Cross My Heart
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- Daley-Clarke, Donna: Lazy Eye
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- Dark, Alice Elliott: Think of England
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- Guest, Judith: The Tarnished Eye
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- Havazelet, Ehud: Bearing the Body
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- Hermann, Nellie: The Cure for Grief
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- Inclán, Jessica Barksdale: When You Go Away
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- Johnson, Rebecca: And Sometimes Why
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- Jones, Tayari: The Untelling
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- Kuhlman, Evan: Wolf Boy
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- Lewis, Pam: Perfect Family
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- Mann, William J.: Object of Desire
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- Milner, Donna: After River
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- Mitchard, Jacqueline: Cappadora Family series
- The Deep End of the Ocean
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- No Time To Wave Goodbye
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- Noble, Elizabeth: Things I Want My Daughters To Know
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- O'Nan, Stewart: Songs for the Missing
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- Raleigh, Michael: In the Castle of the Flynns
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- Schumacher, Julie: The Body is Water
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- Schwartz, John Burnham: Reservation Road
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- Smith, Robert Kimmel: Jane's House
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- Strayed, Cheryl: Torch
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- Swick, Marly: Evening News
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- Woodward, Margaret: Still Waters
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Other
- Arnoldi, Katie: The Wentworths
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- Azzopardi, Trezza: The Hiding Place
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- Baggott, Julianna: The Miss America Family
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- Burns, Elizabeth: Tilt
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- Busch, Frederick: Girls
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- Chen, Ying: Ingratitude
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- Clark, Robert: In the Deep Midwinter
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- Cochrane, Mick: Flesh Wounds
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- Cody, Paul: So Far Gone
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- Coe, Jonathan: The Rain before It Falls
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- Cook, Thomas H.: Red Leaves
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- Cookson, Catherine: The Year of the Virgins
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- Coupland, Douglas: All Families Are Psychotic
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- Forster, Gwynne: Blue From Down Deep
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- Goldhagen, Shari: Family and Other Accidents
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- Haigh, Jennifer: The Condition
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- Harrison, Jim: True North
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- Hoffman, Alice: The Story Sisters
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- Kabak, Carrie: Cover the Butter
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- Minot, George: The Blue Bowl
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- Morton, Kate: The House at Riverton
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- Murphy, Yannick: Here They Come
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- Page, Jean Reynolds: The Space Between Before and After
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- Parks, Tim: Judge Savage
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- Petrakis, Harry Mark: The Orchards of Ithaca
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- Pywell, Sharon: What Happened to Henry
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- Ryan, Patrick: Send Me
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- Sebold, Alice: The Almost Moon
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- See, Carolyn: There Will Never Be Another You
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- Stern, Richard Martin: The Will
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- Thayer, Nancy: An Act of Love
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- Vida, Nina: Between Sisters
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- Willett, Sabin: Present Value
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- Winthrop, Elizabeth Hartley: December
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- Wittenborn, Dirk: Pharmakon
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- Woodward, Gerard: I'll Go To Bed at Noon
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