Hunter's Horn

8 best books like Hunter's Horn (Harriette Arnow): Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America, My Life as a Rat, Olive, Again, The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl, Songs in Ordinary Time, Frozen Dinners: A Memoir of a Fractured Family, The Lost Mother, Provinces of Night

Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America

Author	Barbara Ehrenreich
ISBN	0805063897

Reveals low-wage America in all its tenacity, anxiety, and surprising generosity--a land of Big Boxes, fast food, and a thousand desperate stratagems for survival.

Millions of Americans work full-time, year-round, for poverty-level wages. In 1998, Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join...

My Life as a Rat

Author	Joyce Carol Oates
ISBN	0062899902

“A painful truth of family life: the most tender emotions can change in an instant.  You think your parents love you but is it you they love, or the child who is theirs?”  --Joyce Carol Oates, My Life as a Rat

Which should prevail: loyalty to family or loyalty to the truth? Is telling the truth...

Olive, Again

Author	Elizabeth Strout
ISBN	0812996542

The iconic Olive struggles to understand not only herself and her own life but also the lives of those around her in the town of Crosby, Maine. Whether with a teenager coming to terms with the loss of her father, a young woman about to give birth during a hilariously inopportune moment, a nurse who confesses...

The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl

Author

Timothy Egan

The dust storms that terrorized the High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since. Timothy Egan's critically acclaimed account rescues this iconic chapter of American history from the shadows in a tour de force of historical reportage. Following a dozen...

Songs in Ordinary Time

Author	Mary McGarry Morris
ISBN	0140244824

Songs in Ordinary Time is set in the summer of 1960 - the last of quiet times and America's innocence. It centers on Marie Fermoyle, a strong but vulnerable woman whose loneliness and ambition for her children make her easy prey for the dangerous con man Omar Duvall. Marie's children are Alice, seventeen...

Frozen Dinners: A Memoir of a Fractured Family

Author	Elaine Ambrose
ISBN	1612542840

After World War II, the United States innovated and evolved economically in order to rebuild itself, which resulted in great success in new or growing industries. As most families began to enjoy the new pastime of evening television, one of these new industries to emerge was that of the frozen TV dinner....

The Lost Mother

Author	Mary McGarry Morris
ISBN	0143036459

The lost mother is the riveting chronicle of the Talcotts, a family in rural Vermont during the Great Depression. Abandoned by his beautiful wife, Irene, Henry and their two young children, Thomas and Margaret, spend that summer in a tent on the edge of Black Pond. Henry, an itinerant butcher, struggles...

Provinces of Night

Author

William Gay

The year is 1952, and E.F. Bloodworth has returned to his home - a forgotten corner of Tennessee - after twenty years of roaming. The wife he walked out on has withered and faded. His three sons are grown and angry. Warren is a womanising alcoholic; Boyd is driven by jealousy to hunt down his wife's lover;...