June Book Blogging: Guess the Book (Public Post)

[author_by_night]

I realize book blogging is more about book reviews, but the book I'm reading is more of the self-help variety, so while it's definitely a book, I think I'll wait until I find something more literary. :) In the meantime, let's play a game.

Vaguely describe a book in the comments - the plot, one story arc, characters. Then have people guess which books you're talking about.  Once enough people have guessed or enough time has passed (give 24 hours, LJ/DW move slow these days), leave a comment with the book you were describing. 

Example 1:

Girls take each other's clothes and write about it.

Book: Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.

Example 2:

A man in Salinas kills his friend.

Book: Of Mice and Men.

Ready... set... go!

Comments

[cloudsinvenice]

An eternally young man travels the world in search of his origins and the meaning of his life.

[gingicat]

Orphan girl is adopted by middle-aged siblings, creates havoc.

Woman brainwashes children into unrealistic scenarios and denies it.

Dyslexic boy bumbles into a weird summer camp.

[ilthit]

Tired of his job, an important person leaves to slum on a farm while his granddaughter takes over the family business.

Three old women go on vacation and one of them traps her sister in a mirror.

Someone has to take over the old post office, so the city forces a condemned man to do it as a kind of community service.

Wow, I am fail, I didn't play my own game :P

[author_by_night]

Bohemians commit infidelity and make art tragically in a communist country.

Girl possesses classmate to get to her former crush.

Man goes to stop tragedy, finds love instead.

[goljerp]

A boy coming of age, his robot, and pet are forced to discover / uncover the creators of the mysterious artifacts scattered around the universe.

(Kind of long, but it's also kind of obscure)

[ETA: darn missing slash. Also, do I need another hint?]
[ETA: it's been a week, and it looks like people have stopped looking at this post... so I'll leave one last clue for whomever stumbles across this in the future: this book was authored by someone who appears in the previous comments. Although it's not the same book as any of the other ones.]