Music Through the Floor

8 best books like Music Through the Floor (Eric Puchner): Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Too Much Happiness, Homesick for Another World, I Want to Show You More, The Visiting Privilege: New and Collected Stories, Safe as Houses, The Isle of Youth: Stories, Wreckers of Civilisation: The Story of COUM Transmissions and Throbbing Gristle

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
AuthorJeanette Winterson
Alternate cover edition for 9780802135162

This is the story of Jeanette, adopted and brought up by her mother as one of God's elect. Zealous and passionate, she seems seems destined for life as a missionary, but then she falls for one of her converts.

At sixteen, Jeanette decides to...
Too Much Happiness
AuthorAlice Munro
ISBN0307269760
In these ten stories, Alice Munro once again renders complex, difficult events and emotions into stories that shed light on the unpredictable ways in which men and women accommodate and often transcend what happens in their lives.

Ten superb new stories by one of our most beloved and admired...
Homesick for Another World
AuthorOttessa Moshfegh
ISBN0399562885
An electrifying first collection from one of the most exciting short story writers of our time.

There's something eerily unsettling about Ottessa Moshfegh's stories, something almost dangerous, while also being delightful, and even laugh-out-loud funny. Her characters are all unsteady...
AuthorJamie Quatro
Sharp-edged and fearless, mixing white-hot yearning with daring humor, Jamie Quatro’s debut collection is a beautiful and disquieting portrait of infidelity, faith, and family.

The hypnotically intimate, urgent stories in I Want to Show You More are about lives stretched between spirituality...
AuthorJoy Williams
ISBN1101874899
The legendary writer’s first collection in more than ten years—and, finally, the definitive one. A literary event of the highest order.

Joy Williams has been celebrated as a master of the short story for four decades, her renown passing as a given from one generation to the next even in...
AuthorMarie-Helene Bertino
ISBN1609381149
Safe as Houses, the debut story collection of Marie-Helene Bertino, proves that not all homes are shelters. The titular story revolves around an aging English professor who, mourning the loss of his wife, robs other people's homes of their sentimental knick-knacks. In "Free Ham," a young dropout...
AuthorLaura van den Berg
ISBN0374177236
Laura van den Berg's gorgeous new book, The Isle of Youth, explores the lives of women mired in secrecy and deception. From a newlywed caught in an inscrutable marriage, to private eyes working a baffling case in South Florida, to a teenager who assists her magician mother and steals from the audience,...
AuthorSimon Ford
ISBN1901033600
I'll go ahead and say this is "amazing." Obviously, if you 1) don't care about Throbbing Gristle and/or 2) don't care about performance art, you might not get as much out of this book. Ford does a good job of not just summarizing what TG (and COUM Transmissions) did, but rooting it firmly in the context of...
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