Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo
Bernadine Evaristo purposefully takes her reader on a journey and I trusted her from the opening sentence.
The Tea Girl of Humming Bird Lane by Lisa See
“No coincidence, no story,”
State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
Meddle, Dr Swenson did. Rather spectacularly.
Jill's Scene 
The korero