Fiction centered on family dynamics, home life, and the private dramas that unfold within households and close relationships.
Domestic fiction finds its stories inside the home: marriages under strain, parent-child conflicts, sibling rivalries, secrets kept across kitchen tables, and the slow-motion crises that don't make headlines but reshape lives. The stakes are personal rather than public, and the drama comes from the complexity of relationships between people who can't (or won't) walk away from each other.
Domestic fiction proves that you don't need external threats to create gripping stories. Learning to generate tension from family dynamics, unspoken resentments, and small daily betrayals is a skill that works in any genre. It also represents one of the most consistently popular categories with book clubs and general readers.
Two families in a wealthy suburb, where class, race, and motherhood collide in increasingly explosive ways.
A sharp-tongued woman and the community around her, domestic life rendered with unflinching honesty.
A woman sleeping through a year of her life, domestic fiction turned inward to its most extreme.
Write a scene at a family dinner table. No one says what they actually mean. Through the food they serve, the seating arrangement, the topics they avoid, and the glances they exchange, convey a conflict that everyone knows about and nobody names.