Motherland

7 best books like Motherland (Vineeta Vijayaraghavan): Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self, American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century, The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing, Petersburg, The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin, You Say Tomato, I Say Shut Up: A Love Story, The Long and Faraway Gone

Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self

Author	Danielle Evans
ISBN	1594487693

Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self offers a bold new perspective on the experience of being young and African-American or mixed-race in modern-day America. In each of her stories, Danielle Evans explores the non-white American experience with honesty, wisdom, and humor. They are striking in...

American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century

Author

Maureen Callahan

A gripping tour de force of investigative journalism that takes us deep into the investigation behind one of the most frightening and enigmatic serial killers in modern American history, and into the ranks of a singular American police force: the Alaska PD.

Most of us have never heard of Israel...

The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing

Author	Melissa Bank
ISBN	0143035479

Generous-hearted and wickedly insightful, The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing maps the progress of Jane Rosenal as she sets out on a personal and spirited expedition through the perilous terrain of sex, love, and relationships as well as the treacherous waters of the workplace. With an unforgettable...

Petersburg

Author	Andrei Bely
ISBN	0253202191

Taking place over a short, turbulent period in 1905, 'Petersburg' is a colourful evocation of Russia's capital—a kaleidoscope of images and impressions, an eastern window on the west, a symbol of the ambiguities and paradoxes of the Russian character. History, culture, and politics are blended...

The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin

Author	Vladimir Voinovich
ISBN	0810112434

Ivan Chonkin is a simple, bumbling peasant who has been drafted into the Red Army. Shortly before the outbreak of World War II, he is sent to an obscure village with one week's ration of canned meat and orders to guard a downed plane. Apparently forgotten by his unit, Chonkin resumes his life as a peasant...

You Say Tomato, I Say Shut Up: A Love Story

Author

Annabelle Gurwitch

In this hilarious and ultimately moving memoir, comedians and real-life married couple Annabelle Gurwitch and Jeff Kahn prove that in marriage, all you need is love—and a healthy dose of complaining, codependence, and pinot noir.
 
After thirteen years of being married, Annabelle and...

The Long and Faraway Gone

Author	Lou Berney
ISBN	0062292439

With the compelling narrative tension and psychological complexity of the works of Laura Lippman, Dennis Lehane, Kate Atkinson, and Michael Connelly, Edgar Award-nominee Lou Berney’s The Long and Faraway Gone is a smart, fiercely compassionate crime story that explores the mysteries of memory...