JoCoLibrary – Adult Fiction – Single Parents
Annotation:Abandoned by her husband, former urbanite Venetia Summers finds herself marooned in the country, surrounded by her three children, a dilapidated house and garden, a houseful of animals, and an abiding family love.
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Annotation:The tenuous lives of a single father, classic film lover and pickpocket Jared, and his bookish, gay teenage son, Ben, begin to unravel when Jared falls in love and commits a crime that results in the family's flight from their Greenwich Village home.
Annotation:Natalie Seebring, aging and recently widowed, forms a bond with Olivia Jones, a writer and single mother who has been invited to spend the summer at Seebring's vineyard to help her write her memoirs.
Annotation:In the aftermath of her beloved daughter's wedding, forty-five-year-old single mother Eden Palmer endeavors to transition into solitary life in a North Carolina small town, where she unexpectedly finds passion, intrigue, and betrayal.
Annotation:After a year of living separate lives, Anju is reunited with Sudha in America and they must deal with establishing new relationships with their families in India and with men and women outside the Indian immigrant community.
Annotation:When life throws him an unexpected curve, thirty-something laser surgeon and single father Jon Marshall must enter the world of dating in a post-Duran Duran world where he has many misadventures.
Annotation:Eleven-year-old Reuben shares the story of how his father, trying to raise his sons alone in 1960s Minnesota, takes their family on a quest to find Reuben's older brother who has been charged with murder.
Annotation:Hired as part of a construction crew by handsome carpenter Matt Hallahan, single mom Lizabeth Kane finds herself falling in love with her boss in spite of their many differences.
Annotation:After twenty years in a contemplative monastery, Michael Christopher moves into a San Francisco apartment, where he confronts a major spiritual crisis and finds himself drawn to his landlady, a single mother.
Annotation:Althea, who is divorced and has three children, a bossy dog, a know-it-all younger sister, and no love life, loses her job and starts a gardening business that leads her to fall for a married man.
Annotation:When a faceless stalker menaces his family, corporate CEO Nick, a single father of two since the recent death of his wife, finds that the gated community they live in is no protection at all.
Annotation:Linda and her two teenage daughters leave for the steamy, coastal lowcountry of South Carolina looking to start a new life.
Annotation:After living in England with his widowed mother and serving an apprenticeship under a drunken tattoo master, Cy heads for America, setting up a shop on Coney Island and falling in love with a circus performer.
Annotation:A lovable underachiever living in West Virginia, Eric spends his life as a part-time bartender at the American Legion, assistant mortician, and father to his beloved five-year-old daughter, but his life is turned upside down by the return of his lost love.
Annotation:Will trades his lack of enthusiasm toward children for a date with a truly beautiful woman who is also a single mother.
Annotation:The life and times of T. S. Garp, novelist and illegitimate son of Jenny Fields, a feminist leader ahead of her time.
Annotation:When Claire's husband leaves her the day after their child is born, in the absence of any better offers, she returns to her family: her man-eating sister, her soap-watching mother and her bewildered father.
Annotation:Young, bright Taylor Greer leaves her poverty-stricken life in Kentucky and heads west, picking up an abandoned Native American baby girl whom she names Turtle and finds a new home in Tucson with Mattie, an old woman who takes in Central American refugees.
Annotation:During the Great Depression two white children in the Deep South learn something about moral principles from their widowed father when he is appointed to defend an African-American man on a rape charge.
Annotation:For Eva, the divorced and happily remarried mother of three children, and her adolescent middle child, Daisy, the death of Eva's second husband John in a car accident turns their lives upside down, a tragedy that draws Daisy into a confusing, chaotic, and unstable world as she embarks on a harrowing sexual odyssey with a much older man.
Annotation:Fending for herself in the wake of a chronically unemployed, depressed mother, ten-year-old Evelyn experiences feelings of confinement in their small Kansas town and suffers the heartache of a first love.
Annotation:Abandoned by his wife and enduring the Great Depression from within a tent during a Vermont summer, Henry struggles to support his two young children and considers a proposition from a wealthy neighbor, who would hire the children as companions for her homebound son.
Annotation:Returning home with her three children to the Idaho potato farm she fled twenty-five years earlier, Japanese-American Yumi struggles with her father's terminal illness, her mother's Alzheimer's, her former best friend, and a former lover who once offended the town.
Annotation:The lives of four different people come together as the result of the mysterious disappearance of expectant mother Leila Jameson.
Annotation:A newly divorced Nebraskan dad sips vodka and writes country songs while dealing with life among the quirky characters surrounding him.
Annotation:Seeking to escape her brutal boyfriend and hoping to introduce her daughter, Griff, to the grandfather she has never met, widow Jean Gilkyson seeks refuge in her late husband's Wyoming hometown with her estranged father-in-law, who blames her for his son's death.
Annotation:When Amy Goodrow, a shy high school student, falls in love with her math teacher, the love affair threatens the intimate relationship between Amy and her mother, Isabelle, whose feelings are influenced by the shame of her own past.
Annotation:A single father, the estranged husband of an exotic Nigerian woman, is a chef at a tony restaurant specializing in abominable déclassé English cuisine.
Annotation:Eighty-five-year-old Pearl Tull recalls the desertion of her husband and her attempts to raise her children who must come to terms with themselves and their father after their mother's death.
Annotation:Twenty years after their mother abandons them, Dani and Rose, both in dysfunctional relationships that make them fear they are following in their mother's footsteps, must come to terms with the past when their mother re-enters their lives.
Annotation:Eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison, is propelled into a mystery when a man is found murdered on the grounds of her family's decaying English mansion and Flavia's widower father becomes the main suspect.
Annotation:When an unpopular cleaning lady is strangled to death with a vacuum cleaner cord, Jane Jeffry, a single mom with an eye for mysteries, finds time between PTA meetings and car pools to do some sleuthing.
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Fiction books that focus on the lives of single parents
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