Full name: Birds of Paradise: A Novel

Author: Diana Abu-Jaber Year: 2011 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Award winners, Fiction, Contemporary Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780393342598 039334259X

"A full-course meal, a rich, complex and memorable story that will leave you lingering gratefully at [Abu-Jaber's] table." --Ron Charles, Washington Post At thirteen, Felice Muir ran away from home to punish herself for some horrible thing she had done--leaving a hole in the hearts of her pastry-chef mother, her real estate attorney father, and her foodie-entrepreneurial brother. After five years of scrounging for food, drugs, and shelter on Miami Beach, Felice is now turning eighteen, and she and the family she left behind must reckon with the consequences of her actions--and make life-affirming choices about what matters to them most, now and in the future. Similar books: When Madeline Was Young by Jane Hamilton The Cradle by Patrick Somerville Wish You Were Here by Stewart O'Nan Mothers' Boys by Margaret Forster The Family Way by Tony Parsons This Perfect World by Suzanne Bugler Sugar Cage by Connie May Fowler Daughters-in-Law by Joanna Trollope The Other Family by Joanna Trollope After This by Alice McDermott Family Tree by Barbara Delinsky Swallowing Grandma by Kate Long We the Animals by Justin Torres The Beautiful Miscellaneous by Dominic Smith Come and Tell Me Some Lies by Raffaella Barker Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver Freedom by Jonathan Franzen Crow Lake by Mary Lawson Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng