Bear Down, Bear North: Alaska Stories

10 best books like Bear Down, Bear North: Alaska Stories (Melinda Moustakis): Night at the Fiestas, Housekeeping, The Liars' Club, Sour Heart, The Chronology of Water, Battleborn, Too Much Happiness, Bobcat and Other Stories, Happiness Is a Chemical in the Brain: Stories, In Zanesville

Night at the Fiestas

Author	Kirstin Valdez Quade
ISBN	0393352218

With intensity and emotional precision, Kirstin Valdez Quade's unforgettable stories plunge us into the fierce, troubled hearts of characters defined by the desire to escape the past or else to plumb its depths. The deadbeat father of a pregnant teenager tries to transform his life by playing the...

Housekeeping

Author	Marilynne Robinson
ISBN	0312424094

A modern classic, Housekeeping is the story of Ruth and her younger sister, Lucille, who grow up haphazardly, first under the care of their competent grandmother, then of two comically bumbling great-aunts, and finally of Sylvie, their eccentric and remote aunt. The family house is in the small Far...

The Liars' Club

Author	Mary Karr
ISBN	0143035746

When it was published in 1995, Mary Karr's The Liars Club took the world by storm and raised the art of the memoir to an entirely new level, as well as bringing about a dramatic revival of the form. Karr's comic childhood in an east Texas oil town brings us characters as darkly hilarious as any of J. D. Salinger's—a...

Sour Heart

Author	Jenny Zhang
ISBN	0399589384

A fresh new voice emerges with the arrival of Sour Heart, establishing Jenny Zhang as a frank and subversive interpreter of the immigrant experience in America. In this debut collection, she conjures the disturbing and often hilarious experience of adolescence through the eyes of Chinese American...

The Chronology of Water

Author	Lidia Yuknavitch
ISBN	0979018838

This is not your mother’s memoir. In The Chronology of Water, Lidia Yuknavitch expertly moves the reader through issues of gender, sexuality, violence, and the family from the point of view of a lifelong swimmer turned artist. In writing that explores the nature of memoir itself, her story traces...

Battleborn

Author	Claire Vaye Watkins
ISBN	1594488258

Winner of the 2012 Story Prize
Recipient of the 2012 American Academy of Arts and Letters Rosenthal Foundation Award
A National Book Foundation "5 Under 35" fiction writer of 2012

Like the work of Cormac McCarthy, Denis Johnson, Richard Ford, and Annie Proulx, Battleborn represents...

Too Much Happiness

Author	Alice Munro
ISBN	0307269760

In these ten stories, Alice Munro once again renders complex, difficult events and emotions into stories that shed light on the unpredictable ways in which men and women accommodate and often transcend what happens in their lives.

Ten superb new stories by one of our most beloved and admired...

Bobcat and Other Stories

Author	Rebecca Lee
ISBN	1616201738

Rebecca Lee, one of our most gifted and original short story writers, guides readers into a range of landscapes, both foreign and domestic, crafting stories as rich as novels. A student plagiarizes a paper and holds fast to her alibi until she finds herself complicit in the resurrection of one professor's...

Happiness Is a Chemical in the Brain: Stories

Author	Lucia Perillo
ISBN	0393083535

Populating a small town in the Pacific Northwest, the characters in Lucia Perillo’s story collection all resist giving the world what it expects of them and are surprised when the world comes roaring back.


An addict trapped in a country house becomes obsessed with vacuum cleaners and...

In Zanesville

Author	Jo Ann Beard
ISBN	0316084476

The beguiling fourteen-year-old narrator of IN ZANESVILLE is a late bloomer. She is used to flying under the radar-a sidekick, a third wheel, a marching band dropout, a disastrous babysitter, the kind of girl whose Eureka moment is the discovery that "fudge" can't be said with an English accent.

Luckily,...

The Boys of My Youth

Author	Jo Ann Beard
ISBN	0316085251

Rarely does the debut of a new writer garner such attention & acclaim. The excitement began the moment "The Fourth State of Matter," one of the fourteen extraordinary personal narratives in this book, appeared in the pages of The New Yorker. It increased when the author received a prestigious Whiting...