Four epic, heartfelt family sagas

At The Barnes & Noble Book Blog Ellen Wehle tagged four sweeping family sagas, including:
Some Luck, by Jane Smiley

Pulitzer Prize–winning author Jane Smiley returns to the fictional town of Denby, Iowa, to follow the lives of the Langdon family. The first book of a projected trilogy that will span 100 years, Some Luck opens in 1920, as Walter and Rosanna Langdon give birth to their first child