Bastard Out of Carolina / Two or Three Things I Know For Sure

6 best books like Bastard Out of Carolina / Two or Three Things I Know For Sure (Dorothy Allison): Mostly Dead Things, The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother, The Need, Cathedral, Cribsheet: A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting, from Birth to Preschool, The Engagements

Mostly Dead Things

Author	Kristen Arnett
ISBN	1947793306

One morning, Jessa-Lynn Morton walks into the family taxidermy shop to find that her father has committed suicide, right there on one of the metal tables. Shocked and grieving, Jessa steps up to manage the failing business, while the rest of the Morton family crumbles. Her mother starts sneaking into...

The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother

Author	James McBride
ISBN	1573225789

Touches readers of all colors as a vivid portrait of growing up, a haunting meditation on race and identity, and a lyrical valentine to a mother from her son.

Who is Ruth McBride Jordan? A self-declared "light-skinned" woman evasive about her ethnicity, yet steadfast in her love for her twelve...

The Need

Author	Helen Phillips
ISBN	1982113162

When Molly, home alone with her two young children, hears footsteps in the living room, she tries to convince herself it’s the sleep deprivation. She’s been hearing things these days. Startling at loud noises. Imagining the worst-case scenario. It’s what mothers do, she knows.

But...

Cathedral

Author	Raymond Carver
ISBN	0679723692

Raymond Carver’s third collection of stories, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, including the canonical titular story about blindness and learning to enter the very different world of another.  These twelve stories mark a turning point in Carver’s career and “overflow with the danger,...

Cribsheet: A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting, from Birth to Preschool

Author	Emily Oster
ISBN	0525559256

From the author of EXPECTING BETTER, an economist's guide to the early years of parenting

With EXPECTING BETTER, award-winning economist Emily Oster spotted a need in the pregnancy market for advice that gave women the information they needed to make the best decision for their own pregnancies....

The Engagements

Author	J. Courtney Sullivan
ISBN	0307949222

A People Magazine Top 10 Best Book of the Year

The bestselling author of Maine returns with an exhilarating novel about Frances Gerety, the real pioneering ad woman who coined the famous slogan “A Diamond is Forever,” and four unique marriages that will test how true—or not—those...