Edgy Fiction

Try these books if you're looking for:

• Edgy fiction
• Jodi Picoult read-alikes
• Strong characterization
  

She's Come Undone
By Wally Lamb
F LAMB
Bruised by her parents' divorce, her mother's breakdown, and brutal betrayal by a neighbor, Dolores Price tries to retreat from life. She’s angry and defiant which blinds her to the needs of others. While battling for love and acceptance she is supported by some delightfully unconventional friends. Her struggles to understand pain and achieve forgiveness resonate with a sense of life's complexities.

A Virtuous Woman
By Kaye Gibbons
F GIBBONS
In Jack Stokes and Ruby Pitt’s love story, we learn about their very different backgrounds, troubled histories and unlikely but loving marriage. Ruby stunned her good family by running off with a migrant worker who savagely abuses her. When he is killed in a brawl, she is too proud to ask her family for help. She begins doing housework for a wealthy family and meets Jack, a capable tenant farmer who is twice her age.

While I Was Gone
By Sue Miller
F MILLER
Jo Becker is a woman who has everything one could desire: a loving spouse, contented children, and a nice dog or two. When her veterinary practice takes on a new client, however, her past comes back to haunt her. Long ago, it seems, she had escaped her family for a commune in Cambridge. That life came to an abrupt, bloody end when one of her housemates was brutally murdered.