Ithaka: A Daughter's Memoir of Being Found

6 best books like Ithaka: A Daughter's Memoir of Being Found (Sarah Saffian): Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love, Amy Falls Down, The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe V. Wade, Circle Mirror Transformation, The Introvert's Way: Living a Quiet Life in a Noisy World, Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer

Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love

Author	Dani Shapiro
ISBN	1524732710

The author of Hourglass now gives us a new memoir about identity, paternity, and family secrets—a real-time In the spring of 2016, through a genealogy website to which she had whimsically submitted her DNA for analysis, Dani Shapiro received the stunning news that her father was not her biological...

Amy Falls Down

Author	Jincy Willett
ISBN	1250028280

Amy Gallup is an aging novelist and writing instructor living in Escondido, California, with her dog, Alphonse. Since recent unsettling events, she has made some progress. While she still has writer's block, she doesn't suffer from it. She's still a hermit, but she has allowed some of her class members...

The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe V. Wade

Author	Ann Fessler
ISBN	1594200947

A powerful and groundbreaking revelation of the secret history of the 1.5 million women who surrendered children for adoption in the several decades before Roe v. Wade

In this deeply moving work, Ann Fessler brings to light the lives of hundreds of thousands of young single American women...

Circle Mirror Transformation

Author	Annie Baker
ISBN	0822224453

I read this play, "Circle Mirror Transformation" by Annie Baker today, and I loved it!

The action of the play takes place during a six week acting class held at a community center. The characters consist of a teacher and her four students: a teenage girl, a former actress brushing up on her craft,...

The Introvert's Way: Living a Quiet Life in a Noisy World

Author	Sophia Dembling
ISBN	0399537694

Introversion Is a Gift.

This clever and pithy book challenges introverts to take ownership of their personalities...with quiet strength. Sophia Dembling asserts that the introvert’s lifestyle is not “wrong” or lacking, as society or extroverts would have us believe. Through a...

Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer

Author	Barbara Ehrenreich
ISBN	1478961260

Bestselling author of Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich explores how we are killing ourselves to live longer, not better.

A razor-sharp polemic which offers an entirely new understanding of our bodies, ourselves, and our place in the universe, Natural Causes describes how we over-prepare...