Brewster
9 best books like Brewster (Mark Slouka): What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance, Holy Cow: An Indian Adventure, Fugitive Pieces, The Panopticon, Return to Oakpine, The Virgins, 26 Marathons: What I've Learned About Faith, Identity, Running, and Life From Each Marathon I've Run, Above the Waterfall, With or Without You
What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance
| Author | Carolyn Forché |
| ISBN | 0525560378 |
The powerful story of a young poet who becomes an activist through a trial by fire
What You Have Heard is True is a devastating, lyrical, and visionary memoir about a young woman's brave choice to engage with horror in order to help others. Written by one of the most gifted poets of her generation,...
Holy Cow: An Indian Adventure
| Author | Sarah Macdonald |
| ISBN | 0767915747 |
In her twenties, journalist Sarah Macdonald backpacked around India and came away with a lasting impression of heat, pollution and poverty. So when an airport beggar read her palm and told her she would return to India—and for love—she screamed, “Never!” and gave the country, and him, the...
| Author | Anne Michaels |
| ISBN | 0679776591 |
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
Winner of the Lannan Literary Fiction Award
Winner of the Guardian Fiction Award
In 1940 a boy bursts from the mud of a war-torn Polish city, where he has buried himself to hide from the soldiers who murdered his family. His name is Jakob Beer....
| Author | Jenni Fagan |
| ISBN | 0434021776 |
Pa`nop´ti`con ( noun). A circular prison with cells so constructed that the prisoners can be observed at all times. [Greek panoptos 'seen by all'] Anais Hendricks, fifteen, is in the back of a police car, headed for the Panopticon, a home for chronic young offenders. She can't remember the events that...
| Author | Ron Carlson |
| ISBN | 0670025070 |
From a widely admired author, a poignant novel about homecoming, friendship, growing up, and growing old for fans of Richard Ford and Richard Russo
In this finely wrought portrait of western American life, Ron Carlson takes us to the small town of Oakpine, Wyoming, and into the lives of four...
| Author | Pamela Erens |
| ISBN | 1935639625 |
It’s 1979, and Aviva Rossner and Seung Jung are notorious at Auburn Academy. They’re an unlikely pair at an elite East Coast boarding school (she’s Jewish; he’s Korean American) and hardly shy when it comes to their sexuality. Aviva is a formerly bookish girl looking for liberation from an...
26 Marathons: What I've Learned About Faith, Identity, Running, and Life From Each Marathon I've Run
Four-time Olympian Meb Keflezighi shares lessons learned from each of the 26 marathons he's run in his storied career.
When Meb Keflezighi ran his final marathon in New York City on November 5, 2017, it marked the end of an extraordinary distance-running career. As the first person in history...
| Author | Ron Rash |
| ISBN | 0062349317 |
Les, a long-time sheriff nearing retirement, contends with the ravages of poverty and crystal meth in his small Appalachian town. Nestled in a beautiful hollow of the Appalachians, his is a tight-knit community rife with secrets and suspicious of outsiders.
Becky, a park ranger, arrives...
Domenica Ruta grew up in Danvers, Massachusetts, in a ramshackle, rundown, trash-filled house with her mother, a drug dealer and user who raised Domenica on a steady diet of Oxycontin. Growing up, Domenica knew she didn't fit in-she was far smarter and worse dressed than everyone else she knew, and...
