Family, Place and Belonging
Family, Place and Belonging
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What we carry when we leave, what we find when we return
Families carry their stories across countries, generations, and silences. These novels explore leaving, returning, caring for one another, and discovering what the family never told. Choose a book below for its full description and available editions.
Las familias llevan sus historias a través de países, generaciones y silencios. Estas novelas exploran la partida, el regreso, el cuidado mutuo y lo que la familia nunca contó. Elige un libro para ver su descripción completa y las ediciones disponibles.
Valentina, a documentary filmmaker, arrives at her grandparents’ house with a camcorder and a tote full of objects from their storage rooms, to understand the famous painter she never really knew. A story told object by object, memory by memory, across three generations.
In a closet in Bogotá, Martín finds his grandmother’s memoir, hidden for seventy-six years. Enriqueta de Umaña spoke before the United Nations and moved through the corridors of Colombian power, convinced that a woman’s voice could reshape the institutions that had excluded her.
Across a century and three countries, the Delgado family braids art with risk, from the mountain studios of early 1900s Colombia to the immigrant neighborhoods of mid-century Canada and back. A novel named for the most beautiful danger in Colombia.
Budapest, January 1941. A mother packs twenty kilos for her nine-year-old son, who does not know he is saying goodbye to everything. A family scattered by war and silence is reassembled across eight decades through the letters they wrote and the ones they never sent.
Six Latino friends in their sixties watch their aging parents through the final chapters of life, and learn that the hardest conversations are the ones that matter most.
Fifteen years after a chaotic honeymoon with five children in tow, Roberto and Marianne Castellanos return to Paris, newly retired and unsure who they are now. Like Cortázar’s masterpiece, the novel can be read in two ways.
Port Townsend, 1851. The first settlers were certain they were building the greatest city on the Pacific Coast, on land the S’Klallam and Chemakum peoples had lived on for thousands of years. A novel about who claims a place, and who was already there.
Three novellas, each narrated by a ten-year-old, about what children carry and what they pass on when the ordinary world reveals its hidden architecture of resistance, loss and inheritance.
Bogotá, 2025. Six former teachers from the Colegio San Telmo gather for the first time in four decades, summoned by a colleague’s death and the posthumous novel none of them dares to open. What begins as a book launch becomes a night of confessions.
En 1977, una joven archivista desaparece después de descubrir pruebas de despojo de tierras. Casi cincuenta años después, una investigadora hereda sus papeles y una pregunta incómoda: ¿qué hacer con una verdad que fue guardada para sobrevivir?
Cuando Esteban Ibáñez decide venderle el lote de su madre a un constructor del barrio al otro lado del río, reactiva una división de cincuenta años. Dos hombres que cargan silencios: uno fue guerrillero, el otro sirvió en la Armada, y ninguno ha contado lo que vio.
A novelist with early-onset dementia writes his last book while two families, in Port Townsend and Colombia, struggle with promises made when the future seemed clearer. A novel about authorship, care, and what we owe the people we become.
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