Family Saga

Behind the Palm Beach Glamour, One Family Faces a Reckoning

In Palm Beach, a family can look flawless from the outside and still be coming apart behind the hedges. The trick is knowing how to smile through it, where to sit, what to wear and which rumors to pretend not to hear. Lucinda Barrows has spent decades perfecting that art.…

BookTribJune 2, 2026

Fiction Fiction - Featured Thrillers

“Hope and Glory” Questions the Meaning of Home and Family

Jendella Benson’s debut novel, Hope and Glory (William Morrow), celebrates Nigerian culture and close family ties. THE PLOT Glory Akíndélé’s family are Nigerian immigrants living in London. She’d always considered her older sister, Faith, “a Stepford Wife,” consumed with her husband and toddler twins. Glory craved independence and needed to make…

K.L. RomoJuly 7, 2022

Nonfiction Nonfiction - Featured

“Enter the Enemy:” Letters From the War-Torn Past

A touch of defiance. A touch of fear. Marie Dunat Iribarren, who lived in a small village in Basque country in the south of France, offers that blunt assessment of the Germans in the days leading up to their invasion and occupation of France in 1940. It’s one of the…

Jim AlkonDecember 9, 2020

Book Club Network Fiction

“All Adults Here:” A Rich Family Tale of Remembrance, Revision and New Chances

In a family saga about personal awakenings and shape shifting, it’s always best if one finds each character appealing. That surely is the case in Emma Straub’s new novel, All Adults Here (Riverhead Books). The multigenerational clan of Stricks is vivid, understandable and relatable. We know their angst, we understand…

Susan Shapiro BarashMay 6, 2020

Book Club Network Fiction

“The Guest Book:” Identity, Isolation and An Island

The Guest Book (Flatiron Books) by Sarah Blake is a multigenerational family saga about the life of the wealthy and well-bred Milton family. Kitty Milton has it all—a powerful, successful husband, a beautiful home in Manhattan, three beautiful kids, and all the money she could ever need. She basks in…

K.L. RomoFebruary 26, 2019

Fiction

The Multi-Generational Journey to Make the World “A Better Place”

Before he wrote A Better Place (Mandevilla Press), Steven M. Forman made a name for himself with the Boca trilogy, a series of mystery novels set in Forman’s own Boca Raton. This novel, an epic 400-plus-page saga spanning most of the twentieth century and revolving around the story of one…

BookTribDecember 4, 2019

BooksToScreen Fiction

Nelle Lyons Comes Into Her Own on “The Road to Home”

Nelle Lyons indeed is now discovering the truth of those words, spoken by her grandfather in The Road to Home (Gatekeeper Press), the third book in Ellen Gibson-Adler's trilogy chronicling the lives of the Lyons family. It is a multigenerational tale of broken and imperfect people trying to come to…

Cynthia ConradDecember 2, 2019

Fiction

An Epic Tale of War, Refugees and Love in “A Long Petal of the Sea”

A Long Petal of the Sea (Ballantine Books) is author Isabel Allende’s latest family saga, which spans the decades from 1938 to 1994 and continents from Europe to South America. The novel begins with a startling scene involving Victor Dalmau squeezing a soldier’s heart back to life on a cement…

Mary Helen SheriffJanuary 21, 2020

Author Discovery Zone

Steven M. Forman

Steven M. Forman Historical Fiction From seafood marketing guru to published author, his latest in the historical fiction genre Steven Forman was born in the Boston area in 1942, graduated the University of Massachusetts in 1963 and started his own seafood marketing company in 1970. He has always had a…

Lee PelletierSeptember 26, 2019

Author Spotlight

A Few Questions with Versatile Author Steven Forman

Before he wrote A Better Place, Steven M. Forman made a name for himself with the Boca trilogy, a series of mystery novels set in Forman’s own Boca Raton. His latest novel, an epic 400-plus-page saga spanning most of the twentieth century and revolving around the story of one interconnected…

BookTribJanuary 7, 2020

Author Spotlight

Flaws, Redemption and Forgiveness: Q&A with Ellen Gibson-Adler

"Much of my fiction revolves around the theme of resiliency and the internal work it takes to overcome being different," says novelist Ellen Gibson-Adler. "In other words, taking what life throws at you and not just surviving, but thriving, in spite of obstacles." In her Lyons family trilogy, Gibson-Adler explores…

Cynthia ConradJanuary 8, 2020

Author Discovery Zone

Ellen Gibson-Adler

https://booktrib.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Ellen-Gibson-Adler.jpg Ellen Gibson-Adler Fiction The Road to Home is the final book in the trilogy following the Lyons family as they navigate addiction, mental illness and military life. Ellen Gibson-Adler was born in Tokyo during the American military occupation of Japan following WWII. She grew up in the nomadic travels of…

BookTribOctober 7, 2019