Death Is Not an Option
6 best books like Death Is Not an Option (Suzanne Rivecca): Night at the Fiestas, Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self, Friday Black, Happiness Is a Chemical in the Brain: Stories, Antigonick, Edinburgh
| 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...
| Author | Danielle Evans |
| ISBN | 1594487693 |
Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self offers a bold new perspective on the experience of being young and African-American or mixed-race in modern-day America. In each of her stories, Danielle Evans explores the non-white American experience with honesty, wisdom, and humor. They are striking in...
| Author | Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah |
| ISBN | 1328911241 |
In the stories of Adjei-Brenyah’s debut, an amusement park lets players enter augmented reality to hunt terrorists or shoot intruders played by minority actors, a school shooting results in both the victim and gunman stuck in a shared purgatory, and an author sells his soul to a many-tongued god.
Adjei-Brenyah's...
| 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...
| Author | Anne Carson |
| ISBN | 0811219577 |
Antigonick is a translation of Sophokle's Antigone only in the loosest sense – with significant changes and metatextual additions to the original, an extra character, and illustrations with interpretations left open to the reader, it could easily be considered a different work altogether.
With...
| Author | Alexander Chee |
| ISBN | 0312305036 |
Twelve-year-old Fee is a gifted Korean-American soprano in a boys' choir in Maine whose choir director reveals himself to be a serial pedophile. Fee and his friends are forced to bear grief, shame, and pain that endure long after the director is imprisoned. Fee survives even as his friends do not, but...
