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7 best books like Assumption (Percival Everett): Where Reasons End, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, Savannah Blues, A Clinical Introduction to Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Theory and Technique, Before I Met You, Man Walks Into a Room, Incognegro

Where Reasons End
AuthorYiyun Li
A brilliant writer imagines a fictional conversation between a mother and the teenage son she lost to suicide. Yiyun Li confronts grief and transforms it into art, in a book of surprising beauty and love.

The narrator writes, "I had but one delusion, which I held onto with all my willpower: we...
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
AuthorNeil Postman
Television has conditioned us to tolerate visually entertaining material measured out in spoonfuls of time, to the detriment of rational public discourse and reasoned public affairs. In this eloquent, persuasive book, Neil Postman alerts us to the real and present dangers of this state of affairs,...
Savannah Blues
AuthorMary Kay Andrews
ISBN0060519134
Meet Weezie (aka Eloise) Foley, a feisty antiques “picker,” banished by her spiteful ex-husband from the house she herself restored in Savannah’s historic district, who must come to terms with a life that has suddenly changed…and not, it seems, for the better. In Mary Kay Andrews’s delectable...
A Clinical Introduction to Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Theory and Technique
AuthorBruce Fink
ISBN0674135369
"The goal of my teaching has always been, and remains, to train analysts."
--Jacques Lacan, Seminar XI, 209

Arguably the most profound psychoanalytic thinker since Freud, and deeply influential in many fields, Jacques Lacan often seems opaque to those he most wanted to reach. These...
Before I Met You
AuthorLisa Jewell
ISBN1846059232
After her grandmother Arlette's death, Betty is finally ready to begin her life. She had forfeited university, parties, boyfriends, summer jobs - all the usual preoccupations of a woman her age - in order to care for Arlette in their dilapidated, albeit charming home on the English island of Guernsey....
Man Walks Into a Room
AuthorNicole Krauss
ISBN0385721919
A luminous and unforgettable first novel by an astonishing new voice in fiction, hailed by Esquire magazine as one of America"s best young writers.

Samson Greene, a young and popular professor at Columbia, is found wandering in the Nevada desert. When his wife, Anna, comes to bring him home,...
Incognegro
AuthorMat Johnson
Strange Fruit
Southern Trees bear a strange fruit.
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root.
Black body swinging in the southern breeze.
Strange fruit hanging from the Poplar trees.
Pastoral scene of the gallant South.
The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth.
Scent...
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