A Cure for Dreams
10 best books like A Cure for Dreams (Kaye Gibbons): Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home, Glory Road, The River King, Sing to It: New Stories, Bone, Walking Across Egypt, The Ice Queen, Here on Earth, Half-Breed, Saving Grace
Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home
A hilarious and moving memoir—in the spirit of Anne Lamott and Nora Ephron—about a woman who returns home to her close-knit Mennonite family after a personal crisis
Not long after Rhoda Janzen turned forty, her world turned upside down. It was bad enough that her brilliant husband of fifteen...
| Author | Lauren K. Denton |
| ISBN | 0785219706 |
Written in Lauren Denton's signature Southern style, Glory Road tells the story of three generations of women navigating the uncertain pathways of their hearts during a summer that promises to bring change--whether they're ready for it or not.
At thirty-eight, garden shop owner Jessie...
| Author | Alice Hoffman |
| ISBN | 0425179672 |
From the best-selling author of The Dovekeepers, The River King confirms Alice Hoffman as "one of our quirkiest and most interesting novelists" (Jane Smiley, USA Today).
People tend to stay in their place in the town of Haddan. The students at the prestigious prep school don't mix with locals....
| Author | Amy Hempel |
| ISBN | 1982109114 |
“All the tawdry details I’m dying for are in these stories, but they’re given out like old sweaters—without shame, without guile. Amy Hempel is the writer who makes me feel most affiliated with other humans; we are all living this way—hiding, alone, obsessed—and that’s ok.” —Miranda...
Maybe I should change the 3 stars I gave Bone to 4 stars, because I’m still thinking about this book several weeks later. Set in San Francisco, Bone is a tale of strained relations between Chinese immigrant parents and their Chinese-American offspring (three sisters, one of whom, Leila, is our narrator)....
| Author | Clyde Edgerton |
| ISBN | 0345419073 |
She has as much business keeping a stray dog as she would walking across Egypt–which not so incidentally is the title of her favorite hymn. She’s Mattie Rigsbee, an independent, strong-minded senior citizen who, at seventy-eight, might be slowing down just a bit. When teenage delinquent Wesley...
| Author | Alice Hoffman |
| ISBN | 0316154385 |
From the bestselling author of Practical Magic, a miraculous, enthralling tale of a woman who is struck by lightning, and finds her frozen heart is suddenly burning.
Be careful what you wish for. A small town librarian lives a quiet life without much excitement. One day, she mutters an idle...
| Author | Alice Hoffman |
| ISBN | 0425169693 |
After nearly twenty years of living in California, March Murray, along with her fifteen-year-old daughter, Gwen, returns to the sleepy Massachusetts town where she grew up to attend the funeral of Judith Dale, the beloved housekeeper who raised her. Yet returning to her hometown also brings her back...
| Author | Maria Campbell |
| ISBN | 0887801161 |
Maria Campbell's biography is a classic, vital account of a young Métis woman's struggle to come to terms with the joys, sorrows, loves and tragedies of her northern Saskatchewan childhood.
Maria was a strong and sensitive child who lived in a community robbed of its pride and dignity by the...
| Author | Lee Smith |
| ISBN | 0345403339 |
Good fiction. In talking about children's reading habits, I frequently hear that "it doesn't matter what they read as long as they read." I have always disagreed with that sentiment, because I believe it does matter - on many different levels -- what children and young adults read.
What we read...
| Author | Mary McGarry Morris |
| ISBN | 0140244824 |
Songs in Ordinary Time is set in the summer of 1960 - the last of quiet times and America's innocence. It centers on Marie Fermoyle, a strong but vulnerable woman whose loneliness and ambition for her children make her easy prey for the dangerous con man Omar Duvall. Marie's children are Alice, seventeen...
| Author | Rebecca Harding Davis |
| ISBN | 0935312390 |
"Life in the Iron Mills" (1861) was one of the first major Realist works in American literature and created an immediate sensation in the literary world when it was first published, though it was subsequently forgotten and only re-discovered in relatively recent times by editor Olsen. I'd read, and...
