Books like Love me back by Merritt Tierce

Twenty‑five year‑old Belly Conklin returns to the family summer home on the coast, where a cancer diagnosis forces her to confront love, loss, and growing up amid the familiar rhythm of beach life.

A quietly intense romance follows Connell and Marianne from high school to university as they navigate love, class, and identity in Dublin, their bond growing and fraying with each bold step.

In the orderly suburb of Shaker Heights, a new family’s arrival and a custody dispute ignite tension, revealing secrets, art, and the complex pull of motherhood in a tightly knit community.

Twin African American sisters flee their hometown after their father's murder—one chooses to pass as white while the other stays true to her identity, exploring race, family, and the complexities of self through generations.

Celestial and Roy, a young couple embodying the American Dream, are torn apart when Roy is wrongfully convicted and sent to prison. Five years later, his conviction is overturned, forcing Celestial to confront the fractured life she must rebuild.

When a car crash exposes her brother Joey’s opioid addiction, 16‑year‑old Emory (Emmy) Glasgow must navigate family, school and the small town of Mill Haven to discover who she really is.

When Celia’s father is bought out and forced to leave her home, she confronts the man she once despised—Guy Ryland—and must decide if she can look past the past and move forward.

Cameron Post, a gay teen from a conservative Montana ranch town, is sent to a conversion therapy center after her family demands she change her sexual orientation.

A single mother's ten-year-old son's quest for friendship leads to unexpected complications with the widower next door.

"Structured around the forty questions Luiselli translates and asks undocumented Latin-American children facing deportation, Tell Me How It Ends (an expansion of her 2016 Freeman's essay of the same name) humanizes these young migrants and highlights the contradiction of the idea of America as a fiction for immigrants with the reality of racism and fear--both here and back home"--

A single mom and a wealthy widow decide to help each other out by matching them up for a Christmas get-together.

A tale of self-discovery and unexpected romance, The Next Best Thing explores the challenges of balancing a fulfilling career, family life, and personal relationships. Jane, a single mother, finds herself torn between her demanding job and the love of her daughter, while Rupert, a city dweller, questions the safety of his chosen path in life. When they unexpectedly connect, they must navigate the complexities of their lives and find the next best thing to achieve true happiness.

A story of a woman's journey in therapy and her quest for self-discovery.

Twice married, once divorced and once widowed, Soveida Dosamantes is a survivor. She is currently writing a handbook for waitresses called The Book of Service, a compendium of lessons she has learned working for thirty years at El Farol Mexican Restaurant in the rural Southwest. Looking back on her career, Soveida comes to understand the meaning of service in her own life and the role of women in a machismo culture and in the interconnected lives of work and family. Here is a rich chorus of Latino voices and a retinue of wayward husbands and lovers, from her grandmother, Mama Lupita, to Mama's elderly servant, Oralia; from her estranged parents, Luardo and Dolores, to the lovelorn restaurant manager Larry Larragoite, to the waiters and waitresses of El Farol, even its cough-syrup-swilling cook, Lavel. A novel of antic humor and sobering pain, of nachos and nourishment of every kind, Face of an Angel straddles old worlds and new, Mexican, American, and Mexican-American, to explore one woman's acceptance of her true vocation, her true love, and, ultimately, her true self.

A sharp commentary on race relations and the dark side of haute cuisine in New Orleans.

A twisted friendship turns into psychological suspense as a single, pregnant waitress, Edie, struggles with despair while a mysterious former friend appears at the exact moment she needs support the most.