Last Car Over the Sagamore Bridge

8 best books like Last Car Over the Sagamore Bridge (Peter Orner): How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, The Need, No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, The Apocalypse of Elena Mendoza, My Body Is a Book of Rules, Ongoingness: The End of a Diary, Conviction

How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe

Author	Charles Yu
ISBN	0307379205

A story of a son searching for his father . . . through quantum space–time.
 
Minor Universe 31 is a vast story-space on the outskirts of fiction, where paradox fluctuates like the stock market, lonely sexbots beckon failed protagonists, and time travel is serious business. Every day, people...

The Need

Author	Helen Phillips
ISBN	1982113162

When Molly, home alone with her two young children, hears footsteps in the living room, she tries to convince herself it’s the sleep deprivation. She’s been hearing things these days. Startling at loud noises. Imagining the worst-case scenario. It’s what mothers do, she knows.

But...

No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us

Author

Rachel Louise Snyder

An award-winning journalist's intimate investigation of the true scope of domestic violence, revealing how the roots of America's most pressing social crises are buried in abuse that happens behind closed doors.

We call it domestic violence. We call it private violence. Sometimes we call...

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

Author	Raymond Carver
ISBN	0679723056

I'll announce the cliche of my loving this book before you beat me to it.

I'm an overeducated, mock-contemplative early-twenty-something with a penchant for strong male voices (despite my feminist leanings) and a distaste for anything too sentimental. I was raised in the tradition of "Show,...

The Apocalypse of Elena Mendoza

Author	Shaun David Hutchinson
ISBN	1481498541

Sixteen-year-old Elena Mendoza is the product of a virgin birth.

This can be scientifically explained (it’s called parthenogenesis), but what can’t be explained is how Elena is able to heal Freddie, the girl she’s had a crush on for years, from a gunshot wound in a Starbucks parking...

My Body Is a Book of Rules

Author	Elissa Washuta
ISBN	1597099694

As Elissa Washuta makes the transition from college kid to independent adult, she finds herself overwhelmed by the calamities piling up in her brain. When her mood-stabilizing medications aren’t threatening her life, they’re shoving her from depression to mania and back in the space of an hour....

Ongoingness: The End of a Diary

Author	Sarah Manguso
ISBN	1555977030

“[Manguso] has written the memoir we didn’t realize we needed.” —The New Yorker

In Ongoingness, Sarah Manguso continues to define the contours of the contemporary essay. In it, she confronts a meticulous diary that she has kept for twenty-five years. “I wanted to end each day with...

Conviction

Author	Denise Mina
ISBN	0316528501

A true-crime podcast sets a housewife's present life on a collision course with her secret past.

The day Anna McDonald's quiet, respectable life explodes starts off like all the days before: packing up the kids for school, making breakfast, listening to yet another true crime podcast. Then...