Like Family is Erin O. White's debut novel.
White is also the author of the memoir, Given Up For You, and essays that have appeared in the New York Times, The Kenyon Review, and elsewhere. She lives in Minneapolis with her wife and two daughters.
At Lit Hub White tagged "five novels I love that tell the story of queer domestic life." One title on the list:
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine EvaristoRead about another title on the list.
Girl, Woman, Other isn’t entirely a domestic novel because it isn’t entirely any kind of novel. The book is a tree, a mural, a tapestry woven with the threads of twelve British women’s public and private lives that cross through timeand circumstance. There’s Dominique, a lesbian actor struggling to keep pace with trans liberation, Bummi, a Nigerian immigrant burdened by shame, and Morgan, a young nonbinary person offered a surprising legacy by their grandmother. Even though just a few of the book’s many characters are lesbian or nonbinary, I would say that they are all queer, in the sense that their true selves—and their true joys—exist outside the confines of convention.
Girl, Woman, Other is among Emma Specter's thirteen notable feminist books, Sarah Davis-Goff's six top books about women working together, Ore Agbaje-Williams's seven books featuring very, very complicated friendships, Cecile Pin's seven novels featuring displacement in multicultural London, and Kasim Ali's nine top books about interracial relationships.
--Marshal Zeringue
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