My Leaky Body: Tales from the Gurney
9 best books like My Leaky Body: Tales from the Gurney (Julie Devaney): Darius the Great Is Not Okay, The Gods of Tango, The Love & Lies of Rukhsana Ali, The Gone Dead, The Wife, Sotah, Generations Re-merging, The Forever Summer, Fly Away
Darius the Great Is Not Okay
| Author | Adib Khorram |
| ISBN | 0525552960 |
Darius doesn't think he'll ever be enough, in America or in Iran.
Darius Kellner speaks better Klingon than Farsi, and he knows more about Hobbit social cues than Persian ones. He's about to take his first-ever trip to Iran, and it's pretty overwhelming--especially when he's also dealing...
| Author | Carolina De Robertis |
From one of the leading lights of contemporary Latin American literature—a lush, lyrical, deeply moving story of a young woman whose passion for the early sounds of tango becomes a force of profound and unexpected change.
February 1913: seventeen-year-old Leda, carrying only a small...
The Love & Lies of Rukhsana Ali
| Author | Sabina Khan |
| ISBN | 1338227017 |
Seventeen-year-old Rukhsana Ali tries her hardest to live up to her conservative Muslim parents’ expectations, but lately she’s finding that harder and harder to do. She rolls her eyes instead of screaming when they blatantly favor her brother and she dresses conservatively at home, saving...
| 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 | Meg Wolitzer |
| ISBN | 0743456661 |
"The moment I decided to leave him, the moment I thought, enough, we were thirty-five thousand feet above the ocean, hurtling forward but giving the illusion of stillness and tranquility. Just like our marriage." So opens Meg Wolitzer's compelling and provocative novel The Wife, as Joan Castleman...
| Author | Naomi Ragen |
| ISBN | 1902881516 |
Set against the backdrop of Jerusalem's ancient rituals, Sotah is a contemporary story of sacred and profane love, and a young woman's struggle to reconcile tradition with freedom. Ninety three weeks on the best-seller list.Sotah introduces a family with three daughters approaching the age of marriage:...
“Each generation must make their own / journey through a thick terrain” starts Generations Re-merging, a collection of poems which explores the complex tangle of intergenerational relationships and cultural issues encountered by a Mi’kmaw woman in the modern context, “where every moment...
| Author | Jamie Brenner |
| ISBN | 0316394874 |
When a DNA test reveals long-buried secrets, three generations of women reunite on Cape Cod for the homecoming of a lifetime.
Marin Bishop has always played by the rules, and it's paid off: at twenty-eight she has a handsome fiancé, a prestigious Manhattan legal career, and the hard-won admiration...
| Author | Kristin Hannah |
| ISBN | 0312577214 |
Once, a long time ago, I walked down a night-darkened road called Firefly Lane, all alone, on the worst night of my life, and I found a kindred spirit. That was our beginning. More than thirty years ago. TullyandKate. You and me against the world. Best friends forever. But stories end, don’t they? You...
