Loteria, by Mario Alberto Zambrano.

An illustrated novel vs. a graphic one…  11 year-old Luz has gone mute after witnessing something (we don’t know what it is ’til near the end) and uses a Mexican deck of Loteria cards (look like tarot but play more like Bingo) to slowly– card-by-card– reveal her tale in writing.

Constance, by Patrick McGrath.

Feeling never loved by her father, Constance marries Sidney and feels completely loved.  She feels “my life begins the day I married an Englishman called Sidney Klein and said good-bye forever to Ravenswood and Daddy and all that went before.”  (I’m not giving much away quoting this, don’t worry.  It’s the novel’s second sentence.)