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From short stories to serial novels to an engrossing Russian saga, here are the 10 fiction titles the Monitor's book critics liked best in 2015.
This troubling but deeply moving debut novel tells the story of the Turners, an African-American family that has lived in a house on Detroit’s East Side for more than 50 years. Now, with the city in disarray, the 13 adult Turner children must decide what to do with the house – and their lives. (CSMonitor.com review, 4/30/15)
(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 352 pp.)
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