Holding Silvan: A Brief Life

7 best books like Holding Silvan: A Brief Life (Monica Wesolowska): The Other Americans, The Steerswoman, Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness, Once More We Saw Stars, Proper English, Mr. Fortune's Maggot; and, The Salutation, Prelude to Bruise

The Other Americans

Author

Laila Lalami

From the Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of The Moor’s Account, here is a timely and powerful new novel about the suspicious death of a Moroccan immigrant–at once a family saga, a murder mystery, and a love story, informed by the treacherous fault lines of American culture.

Late one...

The Steerswoman

Author	Rosemary Kirstein
ISBN	0345357620

The Steerswoman is the first novel in the Steerswoman series. Steerswomen, and a very few Steersmen, are members of an order dedicated to discovering and disseminating knowledge. Although they are foremost navigators of the high seas, Steerswomen are also explorers and cartographers upon land...

Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness

Author	Peter Godfrey-Smith
ISBN	0374227764

A philosopher dons a wet suit and journeys into the depths of consciousness

Peter Godfrey-Smith is a leading philosopher of science. He is also a scuba diver whose underwater videos of warring octopuses have attracted wide notice. In this book, he brings his parallel careers together to tell...

Once More We Saw Stars

Author	Jayson Greene
ISBN	1524733539

Two-year-old Greta Greene was sitting with her grandmother on a park bench on the Upper West Side of Manhattan when a brick crumbled from a windowsill overhead, striking her unconscious. She is immediately rushed to the hospital. Once More We Saw Stars begins with this event, leading the reader into...

Proper English

Author

K.J. Charles

A shooting party at the Earl of Witton’s remote country house is a high treat for champion shot Patricia Merton—until unexpected guests turn the social atmosphere dangerously sour.

That’s not Pat’s biggest problem. She’s visiting her old friend, the Earl’s heir Jimmy Yoxall—but...

Mr. Fortune's Maggot; and, The Salutation

Author	Sylvia Townsend Warner
ISBN	0940322838

After a decade in one South Seas mission, a London bank-clerk-turned-minister sets his heart on serving a remote volcanic island. Fanua contains neither cannibals nor Christians, but its citizens, his superior warns, are like children—immoral children. Still, Mr. Timothy Fortune lights out...

Prelude to Bruise

Author	Saeed Jones
ISBN	1566893747

bookmarking this review here. http://www.kenyonreview.org/kr-online...

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i need to say, first off, that poetry in english is really hard for me. i can do poetry in italian, but poetry in english, tough, man.

but a friend of mine agreed to read this with me, and the experience...