An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination

10 best books like An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination (Elizabeth McCracken): She Got Up Off the Couch: And Other Heroic Acts from Mooreland, Indiana, The Still Point of the Turning World, The Girls from Ames: A Story of Women and a Forty-Year Friendship, Here's the Deal: Don't Touch Me, Here If You Need Me, The Preaching Life, The Long Goodbye, Making Toast, Comfort: A Journey Through Grief, What I Thought I Knew

She Got Up Off the Couch: And Other Heroic Acts from Mooreland, Indiana
AuthorHaven Kimmel
In this sequel to the top-selling A Girl Named Zippy, the woman rising heroically from the couch is Zippy's mother, Delonda. After years of languorous existence, this oversized couch potato emerged from the den to pursue a higher education. Delonda was well read but in other ways seemed ill suited for...
AuthorEmily Rapp
ISBN1594205124
Like all mothers, Emily Rapp had ambitious plans for her first and only child, Ronan.  He would be smart, loyal, physically fearless, and level-headed, but fun.  He would be good at crossword puzzles like his father.  He would be an avid skier like his mother.  Rapp would speak to him in foreign languages...
The Girls from Ames: A Story of Women and a Forty-Year Friendship
AuthorJeffrey Zaslow
ISBN1592404456
From the coauthor of "The Last Lecture" comes a moving tribute to female friendships, with the inspiring true story of eleven girls and the ten women they became.

Karla, Kelly, Marilyn, Jane, Jenny. Karen, Cathy, Angela, Sally, Diana. Sheila. Meet the Ames Girls: eleven childhood friends...
Here's the Deal: Don't Touch Me
AuthorHowie Mandel
ISBN0553807862
A frank, funny, no-holds-barred memoir that reveals the Deal or No Deal host’s ongoing struggle with OCD and ADHD–and how it has shaped his life and career.

Howie Mandel is one of the most recognizable names in entertainment–respected by his peers and beloved by audiences as the host...
AuthorKate Braestrup
ISBN0316066303
When the oldest of Kate Braestrup's four children was ten years old, her husband, a Maine state trooper, was killed in a car accident. Stunned and grieving, she decided to pursue her husband's dream of becoming a Unitarian minister, and eventually began working with the Maine Game Warden Service, which...
AuthorBarbara Brown Taylor
In her bestselling preaching autobiography Barbara Brown Taylor writes of how she came to be a preacher of the gospel as a priest in the Episcopal Church. In this warm and poignant collection, Barbara Brown Taylor’s humor and wisdom delve into the meaning of Christian symbols and history—both...
AuthorMeghan O'Rourke
ISBN1594487987
What does it mean to mourn today, in a culture that has largely set aside rituals that acknowledge grief? After her mother died of cancer at the age of fifty-five, Meghan O'Rourke found that nothing had prepared her for the intensity of her sorrow. In the first anguished days, she began to create a record...
AuthorRoger Rosenblatt
When his daughter, Amy-a gifted doctor, mother, and wife-collapsed and died from an asymptomatic heart condition, Roger Rosenblatt and his wife, Ginny, left their home on the South Shore of Long Island to move in with their son-in-law, Harris, and their three young grandchildren, six-year-old Jessica,...
AuthorAnn Hood
“Rarely do memoirs of grief combine anguish, love, and fury with such elegance.” —Entertainment Weekly

In 2002, Ann Hood's five-year-old daughter Grace died suddenly from a virulent form of strep throat. Stunned and devastated, the family searched for comfort in a time when none...
AuthorAlice Eve Cohen
ISBN0670020958
A personal and medical odyssey beyond anything most women would believe possible

At age forty-four, Alice Eve Cohen was happy for the first time in years. After a difficult divorce, she was engaged to an inspiring man, joyfully raising her adopted daughter, and her career was blossoming....
The Middle Place
AuthorKelly Corrigan
ISBN1401303366
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Corrigan opens her memoir with these words: "The thing you need to know about me is that I am George Corrigan's daughter, his only daughter."
She continues with an unabashed tribute to the first man in her life.
George Corrigan emerges as an...
It's OK That You're Not OK: Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture That Doesn't Understand
AuthorMegan Devine
ISBN1683640365
A New Resource for Those Experiencing Loss

With It’s OK That You’re Not OK, Megan Devine offers a profound new approach to both the experience of grief and the way we help others who have endured tragedy. Having experienced grief from both sides—as both a therapist and as a woman who witnessed...
A Practical Wedding: Creative Ideas for Planning a Beautiful, Affordable, and Meaningful Celebration
AuthorMeg Keene
ISBN0738215155
An Insanity-Free Wedding: It Can Happen!

Getting engaged is exhilarating…until it sets in that a wedding costs three times what you thought, and takes five to ten times the effort it reasonably should. And then there are the expectations: from calligraphy invitations to satin chair-covers,...
About Alice
AuthorCalvin Trillin
ISBN1400066158
In Calvin Trillin’s antic tales of family life, she was portrayed as the wife who had “a weird predilection for limiting our family to three meals a day” and the mother who thought that if you didn’t go to every performance of your child’s school play, “the county would come and take the child.”...
Shelter Me
AuthorJuliette Fay
ISBN0061673390
In the tradition of Marisa de los Santos and Anne Tyler comes a moving debut about a young mother's year of heartbreak, loss, and forgiveness...and help that arrives from unexpected sources

Four months after her husband's death, Janie LaMarche remains undone by grief and anger. Her mourning...
Half a Life
AuthorDarin Strauss
ISBN1934781703
Half a Life is a nakedly honest, ultimately hopeful examination of guilt, responsibility, and living with the past.

"Half my life ago, I killed a girl."

So begins Darin Strauss' Half a Life, the true story of how one outing in his father's Oldsmobile resulted in the death of a classmate...
Expecting Sunshine: A Journey of Grief, Healing, and Pregnancy After Loss
AuthorAlexis Marie Chute
ISBN1631527002
Expecting Sunshine is a multi-award-winning memoir and a Kirkus Review BEST INDIE BOOK of 2017

Anyone who has experienced—or knows someone who has experienced—miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy, stillbirth, or other forms of pregnancy and baby loss should read Expecting Sunshine,...
Shattered: Surviving the Loss of a Child (Good Grief Series Book 4)
AuthorGary Roe
Unthinkable. Unbelievable. Heartbreaking.

Whatever words we choose, they all fall far short of the reality.

The loss of a child is a terrible thing.

How do we survive this? Can we?

Shattered: Surviving the Loss of a Child was written to help.

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