Music for Wartime: Stories
10 best books like Music for Wartime: Stories (Rebecca Makkai): Chances Are..., Mostly Dead Things, How We Fight For Our Lives, Birds of a Lesser Paradise: Stories, Everything Inside, Thunderstruck & Other Stories, Book Lust to Go: Recommended Reading for Travelers, Vagabonds, and Dreamers, Honeydew, The UnAmericans, The Peripatetic Coffin and Other Stories
Author | Richard Russo |
ISBN | 1101947748 |
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning Richard Russo--in his first stand-alone novel in a decade--comes a new revelation: a gripping story about the abiding yet complex power of friendship
One beautiful September day, three sixty-six-year-old men convene on Martha's Vineyard, friends ever...
Author | Kristen Arnett |
ISBN | 1947793306 |
One morning, Jessa-Lynn Morton walks into the family taxidermy shop to find that her father has committed suicide, right there on one of the metal tables. Shocked and grieving, Jessa steps up to manage the failing business, while the rest of the Morton family crumbles. Her mother starts sneaking into...
How We Fight For Our Lives
Author | Saeed Jones |
ISBN | 1501132733 |
From award-winning poet Saeed Jones, How We Fight for Our Lives is a stunning coming-of-age memoir written at the crossroads of sex, race, and power.
“People don’t just happen,” writes Saeed Jones. “We sacrifice former versions of ourselves. We sacrifice the people who dared to...
Author | Megan Mayhew Bergman |
ISBN | 1451643357 |
A heartwarming and hugely appealing debut collection that explores the way our choices and relationships are shaped by the menace and beauty of the natural world.
From a prizewinning young writer whose stories have been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories and New Stories from...
Author | Edwidge Danticat |
ISBN | 0525521275 |
From the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author of Brother, I'm Dying, a collection of vividly imagined stories about community, family, and love.
Rich with hard-won wisdom and humanity, set in locales from Miami and Port-au-Prince to a small unnamed country in the Caribbean...
Author | Elizabeth McCracken |
ISBN | 0385335776 |
From the author of the beloved novel The Giant’s House—finalist for the National Book Award—comes a beautiful new story collection, her first in twenty years. Laced through with the humor, the empathy, and the rare and magical descriptive powers that have led Elizabeth McCracken’s fiction...
Author | Nancy Pearl |
ISBN | 1570616507 |
Adventure is just a book away as best-selling author Nancy Pearl returns with recommended reading for more than 120 destinations around the globe. Book Lust To Go connects the best fiction and nonfiction to particular destinations, whether your bags are packed or your armchair is calling. With stops...
Author | Edith Pearlman |
ISBN | 0316297224 |
A new story collection from Edith Pearlman, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and finalist for the National Book Award for her last collection, Binocular Vision.
From the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of Binocular Vision, Honeydew further solidifies...
Author | Molly Antopol |
ISBN | 0393349969 |
In this auspicious debut, Molly Antopol cuts a wide swath through the fabric of time and place, exploring people from different cultures who are all painfully human in their joys, desires, tragedies, and heartaches. An actor, phased out of Hollywood for his Communist ties during McCarthyism, tries...
Author | Ethan Rutherford |
ISBN | 0062203835 |
Alternately funny, menacing, and deeply empathetic, the wildly inventive stories in Ethan Rutherford's The Peripatetic Coffin mark the debut of a powerful new voice in contemporary fiction.
Worried about waning enrollment, the head counselor of the world's worst summer camp leads his...
Author | Joan Wickersham |
ISBN | 0307958884 |
“Joan Wickersham’s brilliant The News From Spain shows, in all its twisty beauty, what a short story collection can do. The stories are gorgeous in themselves, but the way they speak to each other is truly extraordinary.”—Elizabeth McCracken, author of An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination
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