Blood Matters: A Journey Along the Genetic Frontier
7 best books like Blood Matters: A Journey Along the Genetic Frontier (Masha Gessen): Tipping the Velvet, Chances Are..., Brideshead Revisited, A Handful of Dust, A Meaningful Life, Bleeder: A Memoir, Beauty in the Broken Places: A Memoir of Love, Faith, and Resilience
Nan King, an oyster girl, is captivated by the music hall phenomenon Kitty Butler, a male impersonator extraordinaire treading the boards in Canterbury. Through a friend at the box office, Nan manages to visit all her shows and finally meet her heroine. Soon after, she becomes Kitty's dresser and the...
| Author | Richard Russo |
| ISBN | 1101947748 |
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning Richard Russo--in his first stand-alone novel in a decade--comes a new revelation: a gripping story about the abiding yet complex power of friendship
One beautiful September day, three sixty-six-year-old men convene on Martha's Vineyard, friends ever...
| Author | Evelyn Waugh |
| ISBN | 0316926345 |
The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh's novels, Brideshead Revisited looks back to the golden age before the Second World War. It tells the story of Charles Ryder's infatuation with the Marchmains and the rapidly-disappearing world of privilege they inhabit. Enchanted first by Sebastian...
| Author | Evelyn Waugh |
| ISBN | 0316926051 |
Laced with cynicism and truth, "A Handful of Dust" satirizes a certain stratum of English life where all the characters have wealth, but lack practically every other credential. Murderously urbane, it depicts the breakup of a marriage in the London gentry, where the errant wife suffers from terminal...
| Author | L.J. Davis |
| ISBN | 1590173007 |
L.J. Davis’s 1971 novel, A Meaningful Life, is a blistering black comedy about the American quest for redemption through real estate, and a gritty picture of New York City in collapse. Just out of college, Lowell Lake, the Western-born hero of Davis’s novel, heads to New York, where he plans to make...
| Author | Shelby Smoak |
| ISBN | 1611860695 |
I am Caucasian, five foot eleven, have sandy brown hair, blue eyes, and am a tender slip of bone. And I am at the hospital. A coming-of-age memoir for modern times, Bleeder is the incredibly compelling tale of author Shelby Smoak. A hemophiliac, Smoak discovered he had been infected with HIV during a blood...
Beauty in the Broken Places: A Memoir of Love, Faith, and Resilience
| Author | Allison Pataki |
| ISBN | 0399591672 |
A deeply moving memoir about two lives that were changed in the blink of an eye, and the love that helped them rewrite their future
Five months pregnant, on a flight to their “babymoon,” Allison Pataki turned to her husband when he asked if his eye looked strange, and watched him suddenly...
