Selected Crônicas
9 best books like Selected Crônicas (Clarice Lispector): I'm Afraid of Men, Lost Children Archive, Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, I Love Dick, Eileen, In a Lonely Place, I Can't Breathe: A Killing on Bay Street, The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics
| Author | Vivek Shraya |
| ISBN | 0735235937 |
"Emotional and painful but also layered with humour, I'm Afraid of Men will widen your lens on gender and challenge you to do better. This challenge is a necessary one—one we must all take up. It is a gift to dive into Vivek's heart and mind."
—Rupi Kaur, bestselling author of The Sun and Her Flowers...
| Author | Valeria Luiselli |
| ISBN | 0525520619 |
From the two-time NBCC Finalist, an emotionally resonant, fiercely imaginative new novel about a family whose road trip across America collides with an immigration crisis at the southwestern border--an indelible journey told with breathtaking imagery, spare lyricism, and profound humanity.
A...
Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions
| Author | Valeria Luiselli |
| ISBN | 1566894956 |
Structured around the forty questions Luiselli translates and asks undocumented Latin-American children facing deportation, Tell Me How It Ends (an expansion of her 2016 Freeman's essay of the same name) humanizes these young migrants and highlights the contradiction of the idea of America as...
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
| Author | Ocean Vuong |
| ISBN | 0525562028 |
Poet Ocean Vuong's debut novel is a shattering portrait of a family, a first love, and the redemptive power of storytelling.
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family's...
| Author | Chris Kraus |
| ISBN | 1584350342 |
In I Love Dick, Chris Kraus, author of Aliens & Anorexia, Torpor, and Video Green, boldly tears away the veil that separates fiction from reality and privacy from self-expression. It's no wonder that upon its publication in 1997, I Love Dick instantly elicited violent controversies and attracted...
| Author | Ottessa Moshfegh |
| ISBN | 1594206627 |
So here we are. My name was Eileen Dunlop. Now you know me. I was twenty-four years old then, and had a job that paid fifty-seven dollars a week as a kind of secretary at a private juvenile correctional facility for teenage boys. I think of it now as what it really was for all intents and purposes—a prison...
| Author | Dorothy B. Hughes |
| ISBN | 1558614559 |
Postwar Los Angeles is a lonely place where the American Dream is showing its seamy underside—and a stranger is preying on young women. The suggestively named Dix Steele, a cynical vet with a chip on his shoulder about the opposite sex, is the LAPD's top suspect. Dix knows enough to watch his step, especially...
I Can't Breathe: A Killing on Bay Street
| Author | Matt Taibbi |
| ISBN | 0812988841 |
A work of riveting literary journalism that explores the roots and repercussions of the infamous killing of Eric Garner by the New York City police—from the bestselling author of The Divide.
On July 17, 2014, a forty-three-year-old black man named Eric Garner died on a Staten Island sidewalk...
The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics
| Author | William Easterly |
| ISBN | 0262550423 |
Why economists' attempts to help poorer countries improve their economic well-being have failed.
Since the end of World War II, economists have tried to figure out how poor countries in the tropics could attain standards of living approaching those of countries in Europe and North America....
