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1. 1. The Summer My Mother Had Green Eyes

   

   A young narrator remembers a single, transformative summer spent with his fragile, unpredictable mother, tracing how their close but troubled bond exposes him to adult disappointments, secrets and acts of both tenderness and cruelty; the novel is an intimate, melancholic coming-of-age account of memory, loss and the ways a child learns to make sense of a parent's unraveling while searching for identity amid poverty, longing and small, luminous moments.

   The 14425th Greatest Book of All Time