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Jo March of Little Women is one, the eponymous Anne of Green Gables another, Betsy Ray of the beloved Betsy-Tacy books a third.
Betty Smith • A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
The Aunts, the Marthas, the Wives: despite the fact that they were frequently envious and resentful, and might even hate one another, news flowed among them as if along invisible spiderweb threads.
Margaret Atwood • The Testaments: The Sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale
Tamara Griggs
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Izzy had the heart of a radical, but she had the experience of a fourteen-year-old living in the suburban Midwest.
Celeste Ng • Little Fires Everywhere: The New York Times Top Ten Bestseller

The question seemed to decide or confirm something for Joe Walker. He replied sharply that he was going back to live with the Indians because ‘white people are too damn mean’.* He left soon afterwards, riding west, and
Richard Grant • Ghost Riders: Travels with American Nomads
No mates exist for countless miles around, and a chestnut, though both male and female, will not serve itself.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
They inherited all that the devoted care of that declining band of original ones could leave them.