Cancer, born between June 22 and July 22, is a water sign symbolized by the crab. Cancerians can be a bit mysterious with their hard-to-crack exteriors, protecting themselves emotionally like the hard-shelled crustaceans. But once trust has been gained, their dedication and generosity overflows. Family dramas, romance, and feel-good plots best match these compassionate, creative, and emotionally curious thinkers.
Here are some of book suggestions for our sensitive friends:
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The Bullet that Missed by Richard Osman The Thursday Murder Club gets into another spot of bother, this time involving some British television celebrities, a Russian former spy, and an international money launderer—among others. This is the third book in real-life British TV celebrity Osman's delightful series of mysteries set at Coopers Chase, a bucolic English retirement community. |
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Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson In this moving debut novel, two estranged siblings must set aside their differences to deal with their mother's death and her hidden past--a journey of discovery that takes them from the Caribbean to London to California and ends with her famous black cake. |
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Horse by Geraldine Brooks A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, and the greatest racehorse in American history: from these strands, a Pulitzer Prize winner braids a sweeping story of spirit, obsession, and injustice across American history Kentucky, 1850. |
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Those We Throw Away Are Diamonds by Mondiant Dogon In a beautifully heartfelt, plainspoken account, a refugee from the Congo-Rwanda wars breaks his silence to reveal his family’s story of fleeing their home amid unimaginable violence. |
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What the Fireflies Knew by Kai Harris With her father dead of an overdose and her family in financial extremis owing to his addiction, Black preteen Kenyatta Bernice (KB) is sent with teenage sister Nia from Detroit to her estranged grandfather's home in Lansing, MI. A burdened mother, an irascible grandfather, and a suddenly distant sister (she's growing up), not to mention the only intermittently friendly white kids across the way—KB is having a tumultuous summer indeed. But it's a chance to find herself. |