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Elegies for the Brokenhearted

10 best books like Elegies for the Brokenhearted (Christie Hodgen): Day Out of Days, Death Is Not an Option, The Saskiad, In Case We're Separated: Connected Stories, Where the God of Love Hangs Out, Northwest Corner, Gumbo Ya-Ya: A Collection of Louisiana Folk Tales, Safe as Houses, The Marrowbone Marble Company, The People Who Watched Her Pass By

Day Out of Days
AuthorSam Shepard
ISBN0307265404
From one of our most admired writers: a collection of stories set mainly in the fertile imaginative landscape of the American West, written with the terse lyricism, cinematic detail, and wry humor that have become Sam Shepard’s trademarks.

A man traveling down Highway 90 West gets trapped...
Death Is Not an Option
AuthorSuzanne Rivecca
ISBN0393072568
Death Is Not an Option is a bold, dazzling debut collection about girls and women in a world where sexuality and self-delusion collide. In these stories, a teacher obsesses over a student who comes to class with scratch marks on his face; a Catholic girl graduating high school finds a warped kind of redemption...
The Saskiad
AuthorBrian Hall
Longing to escape the rundown commune where she lives with her organic-farmer mother, assorted half-siblings, and a cow named Marilyn, the precociously well-read Saskia White, twelve, imagines herself as the noble contemporary of Odysseys, Marco Polo, and Horatio Hornblower. Saskia's elaborate...
In Case We're Separated: Connected Stories
AuthorAlice Mattison
ISBN0060937890
Spanning the length and breadth of the twentieth century, Alice Mattison's masterful In Case We're Separated looks at a family of Jewish immigrants in the 1920s and 1930s and follows the urban, emotionally turbulent lives of their children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren against a backdrop...
Where the God of Love Hangs Out
AuthorAmy Bloom
ISBN1400063574
Love, in its many forms and complexities, weaves through this collection by Amy Bloom, the New York Times bestselling author of Away. Bloom's astonishing and astute new work of interconnected stories illuminates the mysteries of passion, family, and friendship.

Propelled by Bloom's dazzling...
Northwest Corner
AuthorJohn Burnham Schwartz
ISBN1400068452
The New York Times Book Review called Reservation Road “a triumph,” and the novel was universally acclaimed. Now, in a brilliant literary performance by one of our most compelling and compassionate writers, John Burnham Schwartz reintroduces us to Reservation Road’s unforgettable characters...
Gumbo Ya-Ya: A Collection of Louisiana Folk Tales
AuthorLyle Saxon
ISBN0882896458
my feelings toward this anthology are as complex as my feelings toward the deep south.



upon reading it, there were various chapters that inspired feelings of a nostalgic homecoming -- the voices in the tales are rich and true and sing out history in tones that are completely unique...
Safe as Houses
AuthorMarie-Helene Bertino
ISBN1609381149
Safe as Houses, the debut story collection of Marie-Helene Bertino, proves that not all homes are shelters. The titular story revolves around an aging English professor who, mourning the loss of his wife, robs other people's homes of their sentimental knick-knacks. In "Free Ham," a young dropout...
The Marrowbone Marble Company
AuthorGlenn Taylor
ISBN0007359071
1941. Orphan Loyal Ledford works the swing shift tending furnace at the Mann Glass factory in Huntington, WV. He courts Rachel, the boss’s daughter, a company nurse with spike straight posture and coal black hair. When Pearl Harbor is attacked, Ledford, like so many young men of his time, sets his...
The People Who Watched Her Pass By
AuthorScott Bradfield
ISBN0982015151
Salome Jensen is three years old when she is taken from her home by the man who fixes the hot water heater. As Sal drifts through Laundromats and people’s homes, she develops a perspective of the world and an understanding of its people more meaningful than the most erudite observer could muster.

Sal...
If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This
AuthorRobin Black
ISBN1400068576
Heralding the arrival of a stunning new voice in American fiction, Robin Black’s If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This takes readers into the minds and hearts of people navigating the unsettling transitions that life presents to us all.

Written with maturity and insight, and in beautiful,...
You Deserve Nothing
AuthorAlexander Maksik
ISBN1848545703
Set in an international high school in Paris, You Deserve Nothing is told in three voices: that of Will, a charismatic young teacher who brings ideas alive in the classroom in a way that profoundly affects his students; Gilad, one of Will's students who has grown up behind compound walls in places like...
Everything
AuthorKevin Canty
ISBN0385533306
In taut, exquisite prose, Kevin Canty explores the largest themes of life—work, love, death, destruction, rebirth—in the middle of the everyday.

On the fifth of July, RL and June go down to the river with a bottle of Johnnie Walker Red to commemorate Taylor’s fiftieth and last birthday....
The Typist
AuthorMichael Knight
Rife with the crisp dialogue, complex characters, and stunning economy of language for which Michael Knight's previous work has been praised, The Typist chronicles the early, halting rehabilitation of the grisly Pacific theater of the Second World War-specifically occupied Japan, where Western...
The King of Kings County
AuthorWhitney Terrell
ISBN0143037692
A sweeping novel of our "suburban nation"

In The Huntsman, a first novel hailed by Esquire as "ambitious, rousing and entirely spectacular," Whitney Terrell introduced us to the streets and neighborhoods of Kansas City. Now he offers us the story of their creation. A stunning, intensely...
Learn German with Stories: Momente in München - 10 Short Stories for Beginners
AuthorAndré Klein
In this sequel to "Karneval in Köln", Dino is making his way into the heart of Munich, capital of the Free State of Bavaria and home of the world-famous Oktoberfest. Bewildered by the Bavarian dialect and trying to get his head around local cuisine and customs, he finally lands a steady new job in a legendary...
The New Valley: Novellas
AuthorJosh Weil
ISBN0802118917
The linked novellas that comprise Josh Weil’s masterful debut bring us into America’s remote, unforgiving backcountry, and delicately unveil the private worlds of three very different men as they confront love, loss, and their own personal demons.
Set in the hardscrabble hill country...
Happy Now?
AuthorKatherine Shonk
ISBN0374281432
HOW FAR WILL WE GO TO DENY  THE DARKER SIDE OF OUR RELATIONSHIPS? HOW MUCH WILL WE RISK TO BE HAPPY?

After many lonely years and alarming Internet dates, Claire Kessler, an artist and self-proclaimed homebody, believed she had found the perfect man. Jay was earnest, romantic, and gainfully...
My Drowning
AuthorJim Grimsley
ISBN0684841231
Jim Grimsley returns to the Southern landscape evoked so powerfully in his previous award-winning novels, "Winter Birds" and "Dream Boy", to tell an unforgettable story of a woman's search for the meaning of a dream that has haunted her throughout her life.
Ever since Ellen Tote can remember,...
The Thieves of Manhattan
AuthorAdam Langer
ISBN1400068916
The famously false memoirs of James Frey may be yesterday’s news, but as this funny riff reminds us, literary fakes are as old as literature itself. Ian Minot is an aspiring writer who labors over short stories that seem destined to remain unread. His beautiful Romanian girlfriend, Anya Petrescu,...
Grace
AuthorT. Greenwood
ISBN0758250924
Every family photograph hides a story. Some are suffused with warmth and joy, others reflect the dull ache of disappointed dreams. For thirteen-year-old Trevor Kennedy, taking photos helps him make sense of his fractured world. His father, Kurt, struggles to keep a business going while also caring...
Bone Fire
AuthorMark Spragg
ISBN0307272753
Ishawooa, Wyoming, is far from bucolic nowadays. The sheriff, Crane Carlson, needs no reminder of this but gets one anyway when he finds a kid not yet twenty murdered in a meth lab. His other troubles include a wife who’s going off the rails with bourbon and pot, and his own symptoms of the disease that...
Forgetfulness
AuthorWard Just
ISBN0618634630
From one of our most critically acclaimed authors comes a masterly story of terrorism and revenge and one man’s attempts to extricate himself from his past.

Thomas Railles, an American expatriate and former "odd-jobber" for the CIA, is a respected painter living with his beloved wife,...
Love Stories in This Town
AuthorAmanda Eyre Ward
ISBN0812980115
From San Francisco to Savannah, Montana to Texas, Amanda Eyre Ward’s characters are united in their fervent search to find a place where they truly belong. Her stories are imbued with humor, clear-eyed insight, and emotional richness.

From San Francisco to Savannah, Montana to Texas,...
Glass Boys
AuthorNicole Lundrigan
ISBN1553657977
With vivid and unflinching prose, Nicole Lundrigan has created a riveting and deeply human saga of the persistence of evil and the depths and limits of love.

When Roy Trench is killed in a drunken prank gone wrong, his brother Lewis sees blood on the hands of the man responsible: the abusive alcoholic,...
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