Like You'd Understand, Anyway

6 best books like Like You'd Understand, Anyway (Jim Shepard): The Topeka School, Inland, Someone, Arbitrary Stupid Goal, Ostatni świadkowie. Utwory solowe na głos dziecięcy, Then We Came to the End

The Topeka School
AuthorBen Lerner
ISBN0374277788
From the award-winning author of 10:04 and Leaving the Atocha Station, a tender and expansive family drama set in the American Midwest at the turn of the century: a tale of adolescence, transgression, and the conditions that have given rise to the trolls and tyrants of the new right

Adam Gordon...
Inland
AuthorTéa Obreht
In the lawless, drought-ridden lands of the Arizona Territory in 1893, two extraordinary lives unfold. Nora is an unflinching frontierswoman awaiting the return of the men in her life--her husband, who has gone in search of water for the parched household, and her elder sons, who have vanished after...
Someone
AuthorAlice McDermott
ISBN0374281092
An ordinary life - its sharp pains and unexpected joys, its bursts of clarity and moments of confusion - lived by an ordinary woman: This is a novel that speaks of life as it is daily lived, a crowning achievement by one of the finest American writers at work today.

An ordinary life - its sharp pains...
AuthorTamara Shopsin
ISBN0374105863
An endlessly entertaining illustrated memoir, time-traveling to the Greenwich Village of the author’s bohemian 1970s childhood

Tamara Shopsin, the acclaimed New York Times and New Yorker illustrator, takes the reader on a pointillist time-travel trip to the Greenwich Village of her...
Ostatni świadkowie. Utwory solowe na głos dziecięcy
AuthorSvetlana Alexievich
ISBN8375365149
W czasie wielkiej wojny ojczyźnianej zginęły miliony radzieckich dzieci. Rosyjskich, białoruskich, ukraińskich, żydowskich, tatarskich, łotewskich, cygańskich, kozackich, uzbeckich, ormiańskich, tadżyckich. Te, które przeżyły, wojny nie zapomniały nigdy. Dla nich to...
Then We Came to the End
AuthorJoshua Ferris
ISBN0316016381
This wickedly funny, big-hearted novel about life in the office signals the arrival of a gloriously talented new writer.

The characters in Then We Came To The End cope with a business downturn in the time-honored way: through gossip, secret romance, elaborate pranks, and increasingly frequent...
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