Boys and Girls Like You and Me: Stories

9 best books like Boys and Girls Like You and Me: Stories (Aryn Kyle): What My Mother and I Don't Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence, A Bend in the Stars, My Friend Anna, White Dog Fell from the Sky, The Convalescent, The Museum Guard, Girlbomb: A Halfway Homeless Memoir, The Position, I Might Regret This: Essays, Drawings, Vulnerabilities, and Other Stuff

What My Mother and I Don't Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence
AuthorMichele Filgate
ISBN1982107340
*Most Anticipated Reads of 2019 by Publishers Weekly, BuzzFeed, The Rumpus, Lit Hub, The Week, and Elle.com*

Fifteen brilliant writers explore what we don’t talk to our mothers about, and how it affects us, for better or for worse.

As an undergraduate, Michele Filgate started...
A Bend in the Stars
AuthorRachel Barenbaum
ISBN1538746263
For fans of All the Light We Cannot See and The Women in the Castle comes a riveting literary novel that is at once an epic love story and a heart-pounding journey across WWI-era Russia, about an ambitious young doctor and her scientist brother in a race against Einstein to solve one of the greatest mysteries...
My Friend Anna
AuthorRachel DeLoache Williams
ISBN1982114096
My Friend Anna by Rachel DeLoache Williams is a 2019 Gallery Books publication.

Several weeks ago, this book popped up on my radar by way of Book Riot. I seem to be on a true crime kick lately, so I checked the book out from the cloud library. Although it hardly lives up to the gushing hype, the story...
White Dog Fell from the Sky
AuthorEleanor Morse
ISBN0670026409
An extraordinary novel of love, friendship, and betrayal for admirers of Abraham Verghese and Edwidge Danticat

Eleanor Morse’s rich and intimate portrait of Botswana, and of three people whose intertwined lives are at once tragic and remarkable, is an absorbing and deeply moving story.

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AuthorJessica Anthony
The Convalescent is the story of a small, bearded man selling meat out of a bus parked next to a stream in suburban Virginia...and also, somehow, the story of ten thousand years of Hungarian history. Jessica Anthony, the inaugural winner of the Amanda Davis Highwire Fiction Award, makes an unforgettable...
AuthorHoward Norman
ISBN0330370103
May 4th 2008: Upgraded to 5 stars.
An extraordinary novel by the author of "The Bird Artist".

There are certain things you can rely on in a book by Howard Norman: distinctly quirky protagonists, odd names, a relatively remote Canadian location, and a dynamite opening sentence -

"The...
AuthorJanice Erlbaum
ISBN0812974565
At fifteen, sick of her unbearable and increasingly dangerous home life, Janice Erlbaum walked out of her family’s Brooklyn apartment and didn’t look back. From her first frightening night at a shelter, Janice knew she was in over her head. She was beaten up, shaken down, and nearly stabbed by a...
The Position
AuthorMeg Wolitzer
ISBN0743261801
From the bestselling author of The Wife—Meg Wolitzer’s “hilariously moving, sharply written novel” (USA TODAY), hailed by critics and loved by readers worldwide, with its “dead-on observations about sex, marriage, and the family ties that strangle and bind” (Cleveland Plain Dealer).

Crackling...
I Might Regret This: Essays, Drawings, Vulnerabilities, and Other Stuff
AuthorAbbi Jacobson
ISBN1538713292
New York Times Bestseller

From the co-creator and co-star of the hit series Broad City, a "poignant, funny, and beautifully unabashed" (Cheryl Strayed) bestselling essay collection about love, loss, work, comedy, and figuring out who you really are when you thought you already knew.

When...
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