Hellgoing

10 best books like Hellgoing (Lynn Coady): Lives of Girls and Women, The Orenda, A Complicated Kindness, The Love of a Good Woman, The Empress of Idaho, Us Conductors, Bellevue Square, Half Blood Blues, Birdie, Light Lifting

Lives of Girls and Women
AuthorAlice Munro
ISBN0375707492
The only novel from Alice Munro -- award-winning author of The Love of a Good Woman -- is an insightful, honest book, "autobiographical in form but not in fact," that chronicles a young girl's growing up in rural Ontario in the 1940s.

Del Jordan lives out at the end of the Flats Road on her father's...
AuthorJoseph Boyden
ISBN0670064181
In the remote winter landscape a brutal massacre and the kidnapping of a young Iroquois girl violently re-ignites a deep rift between two tribes. The girl’s captor, Bird, is one of the Huron Nation’s great warriors and statesmen. Years have passed since the murder of his family, and yet they are...
A Complicated Kindness
AuthorMiriam Toews
ISBN1582433224
In this stunning coming-of-age novel, award-winner Miriam Toews balances grief and hope in the voice of a witty, beleaguered teenager whose family is shattered by fundamentalist Christianity.

"Half of our family, the better-looking half, is missing," Nomi Nickel tells us at the beginning...
The Love of a Good Woman
AuthorAlice Munro
ISBN0099287862
**Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature**

Alice Munro has a genius for entering the lives of ordinary people and capturing the passions and contradictions that lie just below the surface. In this brilliant new collection she takes mainly the lives of women - unruly, ungovernable, unpredictable,...
The Empress of Idaho
AuthorTodd Babiak
ISBN0771009844
Bestselling and award-winning author Todd Babiak returns with an immersive and affecting story about a teenager's fascination with an enigmatic new woman in town whose past is catching up with her.

Summer 1989. Fourteen-year-old Adam Lisinski has a lot going for him in Monument, Colorado....
AuthorSean Michaels
ISBN1935639811
Winner of the 2014 Scotiabank Giller Prize.
In a finely woven series of flashbacks and correspondence, Lev Termen, the Russian scientist, inventor, and spy, tells the story of his life to his “one true love,” Clara Rockmore, the finest theremin player in the world. In the first half of the book,...
Bellevue Square
AuthorMichael Redhill
ISBN0385684835
From award-winning and bestselling author Michael Redhill comes a darkly comic literary thriller about a woman who fears for her sanity--and then her life--when she learns that her doppelganger has appeared in a local park.

Jean Mason has a doppelganger. At least, that's what people tell...
Half Blood Blues
AuthorEsi Edugyan
ISBN1846687756
The aftermath of the fall of Paris, 1940. Hieronymus Falk, a rising star on the cabaret scene, is arrested in a cafe and never heard from again. He is twenty years old. A German citizen. And he is black.

Fifty years later, Sid, Hiero's bandmate and the only witness that day, is going back to Berlin....
AuthorTracey Lindberg
ISBN1554682940
Monkey Beach meets Green Grass, Running Water meets The Beachcombers in this wise and funny novel by a debut Cree author

Birdie is a darkly comic and moving first novel about the universal experience of recovering from wounds of the past, informed by the lore and knowledge of Cree traditions....
AuthorAlexander MacLeod
ISBN1897231946
This was the day after Mike Tyson bit off Evander Holyfield’s ear. You remember that. It was a moment in history – not like Kennedy or the planes flying into the World Trade Center – not up at that level. This was something much lower, more like Ben Johnson, back when his eyes were that thick, yellow...
The Crooked Maid
AuthorDan Vyleta
Vienna, 1948. The war is over, and as the initial phase of de-Nazification winds down, the citizens of Vienna struggle to rebuild their lives amidst the rubble.

Anna Beer returns to the city she fled nine years earlier after discovering her husband's infidelity. She has come back to find him...
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