For Matrimonial Purposes
10 best books like For Matrimonial Purposes (Kavita Daswani): Sister of My Heart, A River Runs Through it and Other Stories, Nisei Daughter, Jesus Land: A Memoir, The Outside Circle: A Graphic Novel, Back When We Were Grownups, Fireflies, A Breath of Fresh Air, Bitter Sweets, In Zanesville
| Author | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni |
Anju is the daughter of an upper-caste Calcutta family; her cousin Sudha is the daughter of the black sheep of the family. Sudha is as beautiful, tenderhearted, and serious as Anju is plain, whip-smart, and defiant. yet since the day they were born, Sudha and Anju have been bonded in ways even their mothers...
A River Runs Through it and Other Stories
| Author | Norman Maclean |
| ISBN | 0226500667 |
Just as Norman Maclean writes at the end of "A River Runs through It" that he is "haunted by waters," so have readers been haunted by his novella. A retired English professor who began writing fiction at the age of 70, Maclean produced what is now recognized as one of the classic American stories of the twentieth...
| Author | Monica Itoi Sone |
| ISBN | 0295956887 |
With charm, humor, and deep understanding, a Japanese-American woman tells how it was to grow up on Seattle's waterfront in the 1930s and to be subjected to "relocation" during World War II. Along with some 120,000 other persons of Japanese ancestry—77,000 of whom were U.S. citizens—she and her...
| Author | Julia Scheeres |
| ISBN | 1582433542 |
For Julia Scheeres and her adopted brother David, "Jesus Land" stretched from their parents' fundamentalist home, past the hostilities of high school, and deep into a Christian reform school in the Dominican Republic. For these two teenagers - brother and sister, black and white - the 1980s were a...
| Author | Patti Laboucane-Benson |
| ISBN | 1770899375 |
In this important graphic novel, two Aboriginal brothers surrounded by poverty, drug abuse, and gang violence, try to overcome centuries of historic trauma in very different ways to bring about positive change in their lives.
Pete, a young Aboriginal man wrapped up in gang violence, lives...
Back When We Were Grownups
| Author | Anne Tyler |
| ISBN | 0345477243 |
I can see how some would think this book doesnt live up to its potential- but i think thats the whole point and they are missing the point,as well as Anne Tyler's genius. Anne Tyler purposefully captures the lives of people who seemingly may not live up to their potential- alot of her themes are based on how...
| Author | David Morrell |
| ISBN | 0446675903 |
Every once in a while, I try to take a break from the usual mystery, thriller and shoot-'em-ups that make up my favorite genre of books. Admittedly, I'm pretty choosy about what I pick; anything that even smells like a romance novel or bodice-ripper, for instance, isn't even on my radar.
Those...
| Author | Amulya Malladi |
| ISBN | 0345450299 |
On the night of December 3, 1984, Anjali waits for her army officer husband to pick her up at the train station in Bhopal, India. In an instant, her world changes forever. Her anger at his being late turns to horror when a catastrophic gas leak poisons the city air. Anjali miraculously survives. Her marriage...
| Author | Roopa Farooki |
| ISBN | 0312360525 |
With this spellbinding first novel about the destructive lies three immigrant generations of a Pakistani/Bangladeshi family tell each other, Roopa Farooki adds a fresh new voice to the company of Zadie Smith, Jhumpa Lahiri and Arudhati Roy.
Henna Rub is a precocious teenager whose...
| Author | Jo Ann Beard |
| ISBN | 0316084476 |
The beguiling fourteen-year-old narrator of IN ZANESVILLE is a late bloomer. She is used to flying under the radar-a sidekick, a third wheel, a marching band dropout, a disastrous babysitter, the kind of girl whose Eureka moment is the discovery that "fudge" can't be said with an English accent.
Luckily,...
Messages from the Masters: Tapping into the Power of Love
| Author | Brian L. Weiss |
| ISBN | 0446676926 |
The true story of a prominent psychiatrist, his young patient, and the past-life therapy that changed both their lives.
As a traditional psychotherapist, Dr. Brian Weiss was astonished and skeptical when one of his patients began recalling past-life traumas that seemed to hold the...
The Cliff Walk: A Memoir of a Job Lost and a Life Found
| Author | Don J. Snyder |
| ISBN | 0316803480 |
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A boomer falls from grace and finds peace and happiness in an unexpected place. Don Snyder was a much-loved professor of English at Colgate University. He had a happy home life, with a loving, supportive wife and several young children. His students admired...
On the hot Texas army base she calls home, Katie spends the lazy days of her summer waiting: waiting to grow up; waiting for Dickie Mack to fall in love with her; waiting for her breasts to blossom; waiting for the beatings to stop. Since their mother died, Katie and her older sister, Diane, have struggled...
