Books like Under Red Skies by Karoline Kan

Jung Chang paints a vivid portrait of China’s social conditions, tracing the lives of families and women from the 1920s through the Cultural Revolution in a personal, biographical style.

A poignant memoir of Adeline Yen Mah’s lonely childhood in a wealthy Chinese family during the 1940s, where she faces neglect from a stepmother and the weight of expectations while striving for love and acceptance.

A memoir of a woman’s life across a century of Ethiopian history, weaving personal tribulations—parenthood, widowhood, poverty—with political upheavals, from fascist occupation to revolutionary war.

Juliet Nicolson traces the hidden histories of seven generations of women, unraveling family myths and secrets across Europe and America while exploring how past patterns shape her own life.

A House Unlocked is a reflective memoir that uses the family home in Somerset as a lens to trace 20th‑century English country life, exploring changing customs, social attitudes, and the influence of historic events on everyday domestic life.

Adeline Yen Mah recounts her turbulent childhood in a wealthy Tianjin family, the loss of her mother, and abuse by a stepmother, before escaping to Hong Kong and school under the looming Red Army.

A family torn by grief. Three nations at the brink of war. And a massive storm with the power to change everything. The year is 1811, and in Washington, D.C., a good man's heart is broken over the death of his beloved wife. But Stockton Livingstone's sense of national duty remains strong, and when President Grover Cleveland calls him to serve as ambassador to Samoa, he accepts. Grief makes room for new challenges in a tropical paradise, with six children to raise and weighty diplomatic concerns to address. The Germans' puppet government controls the island, U.S. and British interests are at stake, and as international tensions escalate, the peaceful Samoans are forgotten--and they are preparing to respond with a violence no one expects. No one, that is, except one woman. Mavis Thoroughgood knows the ways of the islanders. With her help, Stockton learns not just their language, but their customs and their hearts, and in the process, he strengthens his once vigorous faith. But the growing bond between the suntanned missionary and the high-bred diplomat faces opposition as imminent as the warships in the harbor--and as ungovernable as the natural force that, lurking over the horizon, threatens to sweep away ships, lives, and dreams.

Rafia Zakaria’s memoir follows her family's migration to Karachi, interweaving the city’s social and religious upheavals with the personal tragedy of her aunt, who endures a painful second marriage amid Pakistan’s Islamization era.