I have recently read The Joy Luck Club and The Lost Flowers Of Alice Heart and I've watched a few movies that I unfortunately can't remember the names of now lol, and it's made me interested in reading books where the family dynamics is central to the theme…. Maybe it's the same story told by all the siblings or multiple generations. Maybe it's a wedding dress that's been passed down through generations. Or maybe half the family passed on their dysfunctional behaviours and there is a rift… Something about the past influencing their future, I think is what I'm after.
I didn't enjoy the tv show succession much, I didn't like how dog-eat-dog it was, but maybe if it was a "suburban" version of that, that could be interesting.
I'm open to all genres, beach reads or serious reads, ideally fiction but memoirs are good too… If you have a suggestion, I'd appreciate any trigger warnings you can think of please (some days I can read a murder mystery, other times I can't handle it).
Or even if it's something like Three Wishes by liane Moriarty where it's told by 3 sisters but there's still a lot of seperation in their lives.
Sorry, I feel like I am gesturing pretty broadly and hoping to catch something very specific – it's been a long year 🤣
TIA
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One Hundred Years of Solitude? There aren’t really much generational family problem but it is a story about multiple generation of one family.
There is new netflix series based on that novel
“One hundred years of solitude” comes to mind. It has such good PR. But I hated it. It’s like each generation repeated what the previous was doing, same mistakes and indecencies.
The Cazalet Chronicles by Elizabeth Jane Howard. It tracks the dramas of a well-to-do English family in and around the Second World War, from the oldest generation down to the grandchildren. It’s astonishingly good.
The first book is The Light Years.
I was quite riveted by Greenwood by Michael Christie