Afterbirth: Stories You Won't Read in a Parenting Magazine

6 best books like Afterbirth: Stories You Won't Read in a Parenting Magazine (Dani Klein Modisett): Tuck Everlasting, The Other Americans, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, Biloxi, The Rumor, The Matchmaker

Tuck Everlasting
AuthorNatalie Babbitt
ISBN0374480095
Doomed to - or blessed with - eternal life after drinking from a magic spring, the Tuck family wanders about trying to live as inconspicuously and comfortably as they can. When ten-year-old Winnie Foster stumbles on their secret, the Tucks take her home and explain why living forever at one age is less...
The Other Americans
AuthorLaila Lalami
From the Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of The Moor’s Account, here is a timely and powerful new novel about the suspicious death of a Moroccan immigrant–at once a family saga, a murder mystery, and a love story, informed by the treacherous fault lines of American culture.

Late one...
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
AuthorMildred D. Taylor
Why is the land so important to Cassie's family? It takes the events of one turbulent year—the year of the night riders and the burnings, the year a white girl humiliates Cassie in public simply because she's black—to show Cassie that having a place of their own is the Logan family's lifeblood. It...
Biloxi
AuthorMary Miller
ISBN1631492160
Mary Miller seizes the mantle of southern literature with this wry tale of middle age and the unexpected turns a life can take.

Like her predecessors Ann Beattie and Raymond Carver, Mary Miller brings an essential voice to her generation. Building on her critically acclaimed novel, The Last...
The Rumor
AuthorElin Hilderbrand
ISBN0316334529
Madeline King and Grace Pancik are best friends and the envy of Nantucket for their perfect marriages, their beautiful kids, their Sunday night double dates with their devoted husbands. But this summer, something's changed, and if there's anything Nantucket likes better than cocktails on the beach...
The Matchmaker
AuthorElin Hilderbrand
ISBN0316099759
A touching new novel from bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand in which a woman sets out to find love for those closest to her - before it's too late.

48-year-old Nantucketer Dabney Kimball Beech has always had a gift for matchmaking. Some call her ability mystical, while others - like her husband,...
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