Loading the shelves…
Bug Hollow
Michelle Huneven
★★★★· Published 2025· 288 pages· read 2025
A pregnant girlfriend shows up on the Samuelsons' doorstep and reshapes a family for decades. Huneven does quiet domestic comedy and real grief better than almost anyone.
Buy on Bookshop.org ↗If you liked this, try…
Off Course
Michelle Huneven
A woman holes up at her family's Sierra cabin to finish her dissertation and instead falls into a consuming affair. Huneven is so good on desire and self-sabotage.
★ 5Search
Michelle Huneven
A church committee searching for a new minister, with recipes. Huneven makes small-group politics weirdly gripping and funny. Loved it.
★ 5At Weddings and Wakes
Alice McDermott
An Irish-Catholic family in New York, seen through the kids being shuttled to their grandmother's apartment. McDermott makes the ordinary ache.