Mothers, Tell Your Daughters: Stories
10 best books like Mothers, Tell Your Daughters: Stories (Bonnie Jo Campbell): The Gone Dead, Ship Fever: Stories, Break It Down, Beautiful Children, Suicidal: Why We Kill Ourselves, Why is the Penis Shaped Like That?: And Other Reflections on Being Human, Nothing Gold Can Stay: Stories, The Second Journey: The Road Back to Yourself, Chews Your Destiny, Eli the Good
| Author | Chanelle Benz |
| ISBN | 0062490699 |
An electrifying first novel from “a riveting new voice in American fiction” (George Saunders): A young woman returns to her childhood home in the American South and uncovers secrets about her father’s life and death
Billie James’s inheritance isn’t much: a little money and a shack...
| Author | Andrea Barrett |
| ISBN | 0393316009 |
1996 National Book Award Winner for Fiction.
The elegant short fictions gathered hereabout the love of science and the science of love are often set against the backdrop of the nineteenth century. Interweaving historical and fictional characters, they encompass both past and present as...
| Author | Lydia Davis |
| ISBN | 1852424214 |
perfect for the holidays … very short fiction
One of Davis’s influences, from a young age, was Samuel Beckett. In this interview http://www.believermag.com/issues/200... Davis talks about her craft and other things literary. Here’s a second interview with...
| Author | Charles Bock |
| ISBN | 1400066506 |
One Saturday night in Las Vegas, twelve-year-old Newell Ewing goes out with a friend and doesn't come home. In the aftermath of his disappearance, his mother, Lorraine, makes daily pilgrimages to her son's room and tortures herself with memories. Equally distraught, the boy's father, Lincoln, finds...
Suicidal: Why We Kill Ourselves
For much of his thirties, Jesse Bering thought he was probably going to kill himself. He was a successful psychologist and writer, with books to his name and bylines in major magazines. But none of that mattered. The impulse to take his own life remained. At times it felt all but inescapable.
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Why is the Penis Shaped Like That?: And Other Reflections on Being Human
| Author | Jesse Bering |
| ISBN | 0374532923 |
Why do testicles hang the way they do? Is there an adaptive function to the female orgasm? What does it feel like to want to kill yourself? Does "free will" really exist? And why is the penis shaped like that anyway?
In Why Is the Penis Shaped Like That?, the research psychologist and award-winning...
| Author | Ron Rash |
| ISBN | 0062202731 |
From Ron Rash, PEN / Faulkner Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author of Serena, comes a new collection of unforgettable stories set in Appalachia that focuses on the lives of those haunted by violence and tenderness, hope and fear—spanning the Civil War to the present day.
The...
| Author | Joan Anderson |
| ISBN | 1401303390 |
From the bestselling author of A Year by the Sea, this memoir is a coming-of-age story for every woman who has asked herself: "Now what?"
The Second Journey chronicles Anderson's quest to restore equilibrium to her life after the responsibilities of being a mother, wife, grandmother, caretaker,...
| Author | Rhode Montijo |
| ISBN | 1423157400 |
Yurgh.
The premise of this was pretty ok -- little girl gets gum stuck in her hair, becomes gum girl, saves the day. The build-up and crime-stopping was really sloppily/dully done, the weirdly scolding but not really actually moralizing tone of the narration, and the overabundance of slightly-too-complicated-for-the-story...
| Author | Silas House |
| ISBN | 0763643416 |
In his timely YA debut, a best-selling novelist revisits a summer of tumult and truth for a young narrator and his war-torn family.
Bicentennial fireworks burn the sky. Bob Seger growls from a transistor radio. And down by the river, girls line up on lawn chairs in pursuit of the perfect tan....
| Author | Gertrude Atherton |
| ISBN | 1499551436 |
Death and the Woman is a horror short story written by Gertrude Atherton and first published in 1892. Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton (October 30, 1857 - June 14, 1948) was a prominent and prolific American author, many of whose novels are based in her home state, California. Her best-seller Black Oxen...
I gave this short story 4 stars. This short story is actually a suicide letter written by a 15 yr old. I think every parent of a teenager (or even pre-teen) should read this. To me, this teen is giving you insight as to why she's chosen to commit suicide. I also feel as a parent, she's giving you signs to watch...
I Hope This Makes You Uncomfortable
I Hope This Makes You Uncomfortable...yes - yes, it will. Kat Savage speaks such hard truths, shining the spotlight on things usually kept in the dark. I love honesty and I love truth, but today while reading, I just felt sad. I felt an intense sadness for Kat's struggles and a deep desire to fix them. I think...
| Author | Jude Deveraux |
| ISBN | 0671744577 |
Carrie Montgomery had grown up with seven adoring older brothers, and she was used to getting her way rather easily. Joshua Greene was only looking for a hardworking, practical mail-order bride to help with the farm and feed and clothe his children. Yet from the moment Carrie saw his photograph, saw...
Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits
| Author | Laila Lalami |
| ISBN | 1565124936 |
“A dream of a debut, by turns troubling and glorious, angry and wise.” —Junot Diaz
Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits evokes the grit and enduring grace that is modern Morocco. As four Moroccans illegally cross the Strait of Gibraltar in an inflatable boat headed for Spain, author Laila...
