How This Night Is Different: Stories

9 best books like How This Night Is Different: Stories (Elisa Albert): Signs Preceding the End of the World, Born to Kvetch: Yiddish Language and Culture in All of Its Moods, The Ice Queen, Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process, Young China: How the Restless Generation Will Change Their Country and the World, The Smell of the Night, A Bride for One Night: Talmud Tales, Happiness Is a Chemical in the Brain: Stories, Bear Down, Bear North: Alaska Stories

Signs Preceding the End of the World

Author	Yuri Herrera
ISBN	1908276428

Yuri Herrera explores the crossings and translations people make in their minds and language as they move from one country to another, especially when there’s no going back.

Traversing this lonely territory is Makina, a young woman who knows only too well how to survive in a violent, macho...

Born to Kvetch: Yiddish Language and Culture in All of Its Moods

Author	Michael Wex
ISBN	0061132179

A delightful excursion through the Yiddish language, the culture it defines and serves, and the fine art of complaint

Throughout history, Jews around the world have had plenty of reasons to lament. And for a thousand years, they've had the perfect language for it. Rich in color, expressiveness,...

The Ice Queen

Author	Alice Hoffman
ISBN	0316154385

From the bestselling author of Practical Magic, a miraculous, enthralling tale of a woman who is struck by lightning, and finds her frozen heart is suddenly burning.

Be careful what you wish for. A small town librarian lives a quiet life without much excitement. One day, she mutters an idle...

Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process

Author

John McPhee

The long-awaited guide to writing long-form nonfiction by the legendary author and teacher

Draft No. 4 is an elucidation of the writer's craft by a master practitioner. In a series of playful but expertly wrought essays, John McPhee shares insights he's gathered over his career and refined...

Young China: How the Restless Generation Will Change Their Country and the World

Author	Zak Dychtwald
ISBN	1250078814

The author, in his twenties, who is fluent in Chinese, examines the future of China through the lens of the Jiu Ling Hou—the generation born after 1990.

A close up look at the Chinese generation born after 1990 exploring through personal encounters how young Chinese feel about everything...

The Smell of the Night

Author	Andrea Camilleri
ISBN	0143036203

The number of Inspector Montalbano fans will continue to grow with this ingenious new novel featuring the earthy and urbane Sicilian detective. Half the retirees in Vigáta have invested their savings with a financial wizard who has disappeared, along with their money. As Montalbano investigates...

A Bride for One Night: Talmud Tales

Author	Ruth Calderon
ISBN	0827612095

Ruth Calderon has recently electrified the Jewish world with her teachings of talmudic texts. In this volume, her first to appear in English, she offers a fascinating window into some of the liveliest and most colorful stories in the Talmud. Calderon rewrites talmudic tales as richly imagined fictions,...

Happiness Is a Chemical in the Brain: Stories

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...

Bear Down, Bear North: Alaska Stories

Author	Melinda Moustakis
ISBN	0820338931

In her debut collection, Melinda Moustakis brings to life a rough-and-tumble family of Alaskan homesteaders through a series of linked stories. Born in Alaska herself to a family with a homesteading legacy, Moustakis examines the near-mythological accounts of the Alaskan wilderness that are her...