INDEX OF SUMMARIES

Summaries List - alphabetical by title
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Atonement by Ian McEwan.  Detailed Summary (not yet completed)
In 1935 Britain, a young girl's false accusation ruins lives.

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz. Detailed Summary, Short Summary
An obese Dominican-American science-fiction nerd risks all for love. Pulitzer Prize.

The Gathering by Anne Enright - short summary.  Booker Prize

The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing. Detailed Summary
In 1950s London, a woman writer struggles with the disintegration of self.

Gone Baby Gone by Dennis Lehane. Detailed Summary
Two private investigators search the underbelly of Boston for a missing child.

Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.  Detailed Summary
Two sisters experience the 1960s civil war in Nigeria. Orange Prize

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. Detailed Summary, Short Summary
A man returns to Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, seeking redemption.

March by Geraldine Brooks.  Detailed Summary
The absent father from Little Women fights for the North in the American Civil War. Pulitzer Prize.

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides. Short Summary
A man born a hermaphrodite and raised as a girl looks back on his life and the life of his Greek-American grandparents and parents to put his strange story into perspective. Pultizer Prize.

No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy. Detailed Summary
A hunter steals money from a drug deal, and tries to stay ahead of an assassin.

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini. Detailed Summary
The unbreakable friendship of two women helps them endure a hard life in Afghanistan.