Mitzvah Girls: Bringing Up the Next Generation of Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn
10 best books like Mitzvah Girls: Bringing Up the Next Generation of Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn (Ayala Fader): Hey Ladies!: The Story of 8 Best Friends, 1 Year, and Way, Way Too Many Emails, The Incomplete Book of Running, The Mermaid's Voice Returns in This One, Dreyer’s English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style, Kid Gloves: Nine Months of Careful Chaos, Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations, The Pretty One: On Life, Pop Culture, Disability, and Other Reasons to Fall in Love With Me, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays, Permission to Thrive: My Journey from Grief to Growth, Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man
Hey Ladies!: The Story of 8 Best Friends, 1 Year, and Way, Way Too Many Emails
| Author | Michelle Markowitz |
| ISBN | 1419729136 |
Based on the column of the same name that appeared in The Toast, Hey Ladies! is a laugh-out-loud read that follows a fictitious group of eight 20-and-30-something female friends for one year of holidays, summer house rentals, dates, brunches, breakups, and, of course, the planning of a disastrous...
The Incomplete Book of Running
| Author | Peter Sagal |
| ISBN | 1451696248 |
UPDATE: I ran the half-marathon today, with a time of 2 hours and five minutes—probably the best run I've ever done. And all thanks to Peter Sagal!
And here is my write-up of the experience:
https://lotzintranslation.com/2019/05...
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Of all the people on the face...
The Mermaid's Voice Returns in This One
| Author | Amanda Lovelace |
| ISBN | 1524852317 |
Goodreads Choice Award-winning poet and USA TODAY bestselling author Amanda Lovelace presents the mermaid’s voice returns in this one — the third and final installment in her “women are some kind of magic” series, featuring a foreword from Lang Leav and 13 guest poems from leading voices...
Dreyer’s English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style
| Author | Benjamin Dreyer |
| ISBN | 0812995708 |
A witty, informative guide to writing "good English" from Random House's longtime copy chief and one of Twitter's leading enforcers of proper grammar--a twenty-first-century
Elements of Style.
As authoritative as it is amusing, this book distills everything Benjamin Dreyer has...
Kid Gloves: Nine Months of Careful Chaos
If you work hard enough, if you want it enough, if you’re smart and talented and “good enough,” you can do anything.
Except get pregnant.
Her whole life, Lucy Knisley wanted to be a mother. But when it was finally the perfect time, conceiving turned out to be harder than anything...
Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations
A bold, wry, and intimate graphic memoir about American identity, interracial families, and the realities that divide us, from the acclaimed author of The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing.
“By turns hilarious and heart-rending, it’s exactly the book America needs at this moment.”—Celeste...
The Pretty One: On Life, Pop Culture, Disability, and Other Reasons to Fall in Love With Me
| Author | Keah Brown |
| ISBN | 1982100540 |
From the disability rights advocate and creator of the #DisabledAndCute viral campaign, a thoughtful, inspiring, and charming collection of essays exploring what it means to be black and disabled in a mostly able-bodied white America.
Keah Brown loves herself, but that hadn’t always...
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays
| Author | Alexander Chee |
| ISBN | 1328764524 |
From the author of The Queen of the Night, an essay collection exploring his education as a man, writer, and activist—and how we form our identities in life and in art.
As a novelist, Alexander Chee has been described as “masterful” by Roxane Gay, “incendiary” by the New York Times,...
Permission to Thrive: My Journey from Grief to Growth
In Permission to Thrive, Susan Angel Miller traces her extraordinary journey, which begins when her healthy fourteen-year-old daughter dies suddenly from a brain tumor, and the family's decision--with their rabbi's counsel--to donate Laura's organs, saving the life of a woman with whom the Miller...
Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man
| Author | Thomas Page McBee |
| ISBN | 1501168746 |
From an award-winning writer whose work bristles with “hard-won strength, insight, agility, and love” (Maggie Nelson), an exquisite and troubling narrative of masculinity, violence, and society.
In this groundbreaking new book, the author, a trans man, trains to fight in a charity...
Outwitting History: The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books
| Author | Aaron Lansky |
| ISBN | 1565125134 |
“Incredible . . . Inspiring . . . Important.” —Library Journal, starred review
“A marvelous yarn, loaded with near-calamitous adventures and characters as memorable as Singer creations.” —The New York Post
“What began as a quixotic journey was also a picaresque...
Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist
From a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, the powerful story of how a prominent white supremacist changed his heart and mind
Derek Black grew up at the epicenter of white nationalism. His father founded Stormfront, the largest racist community on the Internet. His godfather, David...
| Author | Liana Finck |
| ISBN | 0062291610 |
In an illustrative style that is a thrilling mash-up of Art Spiegelman's deft emotionality, Roz Chast's hilarious neuroses, and the magical spirit of Marc Chagall, A Bintel Brief is Liana Finck’s evocative, elegiac love letter to the turn-of-the-century Jewish immigrants who transformed New...
Songs of Seoul: An Ethnography of Voice and Voicing in Christian South Korea
| Author | Nicholas Harkness |
| ISBN | 0520957407 |
Songs of Seoul is an ethnographic study of voice in South Korea, where the performance of Western opera, art songs, and choral music is an overwhelmingly Evangelical Christian enterprise. Drawing on fieldwork in churches, concert halls, and schools of music, Harkness argues that the European-style...
Looking Like a Language, Sounding Like a Race: Raciolinguistic Ideologies and the Learning of Latinidad
| Author | Jonathan Rosa |
| ISBN | 0190634731 |
Looking like a Language, Sounding like a Race examines the emergence of linguistic and ethnoracial categories in the context of Latinidad. The book draws from more than twenty-four months of ethnographic and sociolinguistic fieldwork in a Chicago public school, whose student body is more than 90%...
Going Into Town: A Love Letter to New York
| Author | Roz Chast |
| ISBN | 1620403218 |
From the #1 NYT bestselling author of Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?, Roz Chast's new graphic memoir--a hilarious illustrated ode/guide/ thank-you note to Manhattan.
A native Brooklynite-turned-suburban commuter deemed the quintessential New Yorker, Roz Chast has always...
Vicarious Language: Gender and Linguistic Modernity in Japan
| Author | Miyako Inoue |
| ISBN | 0520245857 |
This highly original study provides an entirely new critical perspective on the central importance of ideas about language in the reproduction of gender, class, and race divisions in modern Japan. Focusing on a phenomenon commonly called "women's language," in modern Japanese society, Miyako...
Running Fiercely Toward a High Thin Sound
| Author | Judith Katz |
| ISBN | 1563410192 |
Running Fiercely Toward a High Thin Sound certainly was something special although I have to read it again at some point to really absorb and appreciate the third part of the book where it all gets very esoteric and dream-like. At this point I wasn’t really in the mood for it so I mostly skimmed over that....
