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A Permanent Member of the Family

7 best books like A Permanent Member of the Family (Russell Banks): Volt, Burning Bright, The Memory Artists, Nothing Gold Can Stay: Stories, The Lights of Pointe-Noire, Bretonisches Gold, The Violin of Auschwitz

Volt
AuthorAlan Heathcock
ISBN1555975771
A blistering collection of stories from an exhilarating new voice

One man kills another after neither will move his pickup truck from the road. A female sheriff in a flooded town attempts to cover up a murder. When a farmer harvesting a field accidentally runs over his son, his grief sets him...
Burning Bright
AuthorRon Rash
ISBN0061804118
New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Ron Rash is "a storyteller of the highest rank" (Jeffrey Lent) and has won comparisons to John Steinbeck, Cormac McCarthy, and Gabriel García Márquez. It is rare that an author can capture the complexities of a place as though it were a person, and...
The Memory Artists
AuthorJeffrey Moore
ISBN0312349254
Winner of the Canadian Authors Association Award for Best Novel

Noel Burun has synesthesia and hypermnesia: he sees words in vibrant explosions of colors and shapes, which collide and commingle to form a memory so bitingly perfect that he can remember everything, from the 1001 stories of...
Nothing Gold Can Stay: Stories
AuthorRon Rash
ISBN0062202731
From Ron Rash, PEN / Faulkner Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author of Serena, comes a new collection of unforgettable stories set in Appalachia that focuses on the lives of those haunted by violence and tenderness, hope and fear—spanning the Civil War to the present day. 

The...
The Lights of Pointe-Noire
AuthorAlain Mabanckou
ISBN1846689805
###I found brilliant###

The pictures after every chapter. Lovely! Each chapter is actually devoted either to a family member or to a place. I really appreciate the pictures at the end to illustrate the person or the point that was discussed previously.

###What to expect###

After...
Bretonisches Gold
AuthorJean-Luc Bannalec
In den spektakulären Salzgärten auf der Guerande-Halbinsel geht gerade die Sonne unter. Der Veilchenduft des Fleur de Sel liegt in der Luft, von dem die alten Salzbauern erzählen, er erzeuge Wahnvorstellungen. So kommt es Kommissar Dupin tatsächlich vor, als aus heiterem Himmel auf ihn geschossen...
The Violin of Auschwitz
AuthorMaria Àngels Anglada
ISBN0553807781
An international sensation now available in English for the first time, The Violin of Auschwitz is the unforgettable story of one man’s refusal to surrender his dignity in the face of history’s greatest atrocity.

In the winter of 1991, at a concert in Krakow, an older woman with a marvelously...
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