Inside Madeleine

6 best books like Inside Madeleine (Paula Bomer): Wakenhyrst, Rusty Brown, Dogs and Water, Shout Her Lovely Name, Spent, Sea of Tranquillity

Wakenhyrst

Author	Michelle Paver
ISBN	1788549562

1906: A large manor house, Wake's End, sits on the edge of a bleak Fen, just outside the town of Wakenhyrst. It is the home of Edmund Stearn and his family – a historian, scholar and land-owner, he's an upstanding member of the local community. But all is not well at Wake's End. Edmund dominates his family...

Rusty Brown

Author	Chris Ware
ISBN	0224078135

Discover the long-awaited new book from the author of Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth and Building Stories. The perfect gift for graphic novel fans!

‘The week after I finished the last page of Jimmy Corrigan I immediately started a new long story based on characters who had originated...

Dogs and Water

Author	Anders Nilsen
ISBN	1897299087

Dogs and Water chronicles a piece of a lonely journey, without origin or destination. A young man wandering a nameless path has only a stuffed bear as a companion, which inertly endures his desperation, anger, and musings along the way. The landscape is cold and bleak with few landmarks, and offers only...

Shout Her Lovely Name

Author	Natalie Serber
ISBN	0547634528

"Coming of age is a painful and beautiful experience in Natalie Serber's hands. These are funny and poignant pieces, building a book that feels novelistic in sweep, yet true to the precision and direct aim of the short story. A real pleasure." —Antonya Nelson

Mothers and daughters ride the...

Spent

Author	Antonia Crane
ISBN	1940207061

A small town girl leaves her troubled family and starts stripping — which introduces her to a community that keeps her sober and saves her life — but a roller-coaster lifestyle ensues. She gets drugged, does enema shows, and unionizes the club. When she tries to quit and go to graduate school, her...

Sea of Tranquillity

Author	Paul Russell
ISBN	0312303726

Paul Russell's delicately layered, richly textured novels have won him widespread acclaim as one of the finest contemporary American novelists. Sea of Tranquillity, possibly his most ambitious and rewarding novel, traces a disintegrating nuclear family across two tumultuous decades of American...