Karma and Other Stories
8 best books like Karma and Other Stories (Rishi Reddi): Everything Inside, The 42nd Parallel, After Tupac and D Foster, Happiness, Like Water, Vietnamerica: A Family's Journey, The Collected Stories, The Tale Teller, Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned
| Author | Edwidge Danticat |
| ISBN | 0525521275 |
From the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author of Brother, I'm Dying, a collection of vividly imagined stories about community, family, and love.
Rich with hard-won wisdom and humanity, set in locales from Miami and Port-au-Prince to a small unnamed country in the Caribbean...
| Author | John Dos Passos |
| ISBN | 0618056815 |
With his U.S.A. trilogy, comprising THE 42nd PARALLEL, 1919, and THE BIG MONEY, John Dos Passos is said by many to have written the great American novel. While Fitzgerald and Hemingway were cultivating what Edmund Wilson once called their "own little corners," John Dos Passos was taking on the world....
| Author | Jacqueline Woodson |
| ISBN | 0399246541 |
D Foster showed up a few months before Tupac got shot that first time and left us the summer before he died. The day D Foster enters Neeka and her best friend’s lives, the world opens up for them. D comes from a world vastly different from their safe Queens neighborhood, and through her, the girls see another...
| Author | Chinelo Okparanta |
| ISBN | 0544003454 |
Here are Nigerian women at home and transplanted to the United States, building lives out of longing and hope, faith and doubt, the struggle to stay and the mandate to leave, the burden and strength of love. Here are characters faced with dangerous decisions, children slick with oil from the river, a...
| Author | G.B. Tran |
| ISBN | 0345508726 |
A superb new graphic memoir in which an inspired artist/storyteller reveals the road that brought his family to where they are today: Vietnamerica
GB Tran is a young Vietnamese American artist who grew up distant from (and largely indifferent to) his family’s history. Born and raised...
| Author | Deborah Eisenberg |
| ISBN | 0312429894 |
Since 1986 with the publication of her first story collection, Deborah Eisenberg has devoted herself to writing “exquisitely distilled stories” which “present an unusually distinctive portrait of contemporary American life” to quote the MacArthur Foundation. This one volume brings...
| Author | Anne Hillerman |
| ISBN | 0062391976 |
Legendary Navajo policeman Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn takes center stage in this riveting atmospheric mystery from New York Times bestselling author Anne Hillerman that combines crime, superstition, and tradition and brings the desert Southwest vividly alive.
Joe Leaphorn may have retired...
Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned
| Author | Walter Mosley |
| ISBN | 1852427027 |
In this cycle of 14 bittersweet stories, Walter Mosley breaks out of the genre--if not the setting--of his bestselling Easy Rawlins detective novels. Only eight years after serving out a prison sentence for murder, Socrates Fortlow lives in a tiny, two-room Watts apartment, where he cooks on a hot...
