A Girl Becomes a Comma Like That
10 best books like A Girl Becomes a Comma Like That (Lisa Glatt): Jazz, The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives, The Samurai's Garden, This Child Will Be Great: Memoir of a Remarkable Life by Africa's First Woman President, Six Months to Live, The Pilgrimage, The Big Lie: Motherhood, Feminism, and the Reality of the Biological Clock, Who's Afraid of Post-Blackness? What it Means to Be Black Now, My First Coup d'Etat: And Other True Stories from the Lost Decades of Africa, Escape Clause
| Author | Toni Morrison |
| ISBN | 0452269652 |
In the winter of 1926, when everybody everywhere sees nothing but good things ahead, Joe Trace, middle-aged door-to-door salesman of Cleopatra beauty products, shoots his teenage lover to death. At the funeral, Joe’s wife, Violet, attacks the girl’s corpse. This passionate, profound story...
The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives
| Author | Lola Shoneyin |
| ISBN | 0061946370 |
African-born poet Lola Shoneyin makes her fiction debut with The Secret Lives of Babi Segi’s Wives, a perceptive, entertaining, and eye-opening novel of polygamy in modern-day Nigeria. The struggles, rivalries, intricate family politics, and the interplay of personalities and relationships...
| Author | Gail Tsukiyama |
| ISBN | 0312144075 |
A 20-year-old Chinese painter named Stephen is sent to his family's summer home in a Japanese coastal village to recover from a bout with tuberculosis. Here he is cared for by Matsu, a reticent housekeeper and a master gardener. Over the course of a remarkable year, Stephen learns Matsu's secret and...
This Child Will Be Great: Memoir of a Remarkable Life by Africa's First Woman President
| Author | Ellen Johnson Sirleaf |
| ISBN | 0061353477 |
In January 2006, after the Republic of Liberia had been racked by fourteen years of brutal civil conflict, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Africa's "Iron Lady" was sworn in as president, an event that marked a tremendous turning point in the history of the West African nation.
In this stirring memoir, Sirleaf...
| Author | Lurlene McDaniel |
| ISBN | 1581960034 |
well, she got seven months, at least.
my beloved maggie succumbed to her cancer last night. going dark for a bit to mourn the best cat i ever knew.
so, it turns out my baby has the cancer. and, like the girl in this book, she's been given six months. but what i learned from this...
| Author | Paulo Coelho |
| ISBN | 0061687456 |
The Pilgrimage paved the way to Paulo Coehlo's international bestselling novel The Alchemist. In many ways, these two volumes are companions—to truly comprehend one, you must read the other.
Step inside this captivating account of Paulo Coehlo's pilgrimage along the road to Santiago....
The Big Lie: Motherhood, Feminism, and the Reality of the Biological Clock
| Author | Tanya Selvaratnam |
| ISBN | 1616148454 |
A candid assessment of the pros and cons of delayed motherhood.
Biology does not bend to feminist ideals and science does not work miracles. That is the message of this eye-opening discussion of the consequences of delayed motherhood. Part personal account, part manifesto,...
Who's Afraid of Post-Blackness? What it Means to Be Black Now
| Author | Touré |
| ISBN | 1439177554 |
This is a good book. It's almost a 'how to behave yourself' manual fit for all races. I'd like to believe everyone would read this and we would all get our shit together.
There are aspects of race that we humans will always react to. There has been and always will be tribes because "birds of a feather...
My First Coup d'Etat: And Other True Stories from the Lost Decades of Africa
| Author | John Dramani Mahama |
| ISBN | 1608198596 |
My First Coup d'Etat chronicles the coming-of-age of John Dramani Mahama in Ghana during the dismal post-independence "lost decades" of Africa. He was seven years old when rumors of a coup reached his boarding school in Accra. His father, a minister of state, was suddenly missing, then imprisoned...
| Author | John Sandford |
| ISBN | 0399168915 |
Whenever you hear the sky rumble, that usually means a storm. In Virgil Flowers’ case, make that two. The exceptional new thriller from the writer whose books are “pure reading pleasure” (Booklist)
The first storm comes from, of all places, the Minnesota zoo. Two large, and very rare,...
| Author | David Baldacci |
| ISBN | 1455521205 |
The President knows it's a perilous, high-risk assignment. If he gives the order, he has the opportunity to take down a global menace, once and for all. If the mission fails, he would face certain impeachment, and the threats against the nation would multiply. So the president turns to the one team that...
