The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
Maeve was there, with her red coat and her black hair, standing at the bottom of the stairs.
It is amazing and maybe sad to see through different generations in a family and find some kind of reenactment all the way through. Books about female lines often feature more struggling and suffering, like The Joy Luck Club, The Bonesetter’s Daughter , No Safe Secret.
There are struggles in family lines also, especially in immigrant families: Pachinko.