Neon Pilgrim

7 best books like Neon Pilgrim (Lisa Dempster): The Second Mountain, Sing to It: New Stories, Eggshell Skull: A Memoir About Standing Up, Speaking Out and Fighting Back, Thru-Hiking Will Break Your Heart: An Adventure on the Pacific Crest Trail, You Are Free, The Erratics, This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality

The Second Mountain

Author	David Brooks
ISBN	0812993268

In The Second Mountain, David Brooks explores the four commitments that define a life of meaning and purpose: to a spouse and family, to a vocation, to a philosophy or faith, and to a community. Our personal fulfillment depends on how well we choose and execute these commitments. In The Second Mountain,...

Sing to It: New Stories

Author	Amy Hempel
ISBN	1982109114

“All the tawdry details I’m dying for are in these stories, but they’re given out like old sweaters—without shame, without guile. Amy Hempel is the writer who makes me feel most affiliated with other humans; we are all living this way—hiding, alone, obsessed—and that’s ok.” —Miranda...

Eggshell Skull: A Memoir About Standing Up, Speaking Out and Fighting Back

Author	Bri Lee
ISBN	1760295779

'Scorching, self-scouring: a young woman finds her steel and learns to wield it' - Helen Garner

EGGSHELL SKULL: A well-established legal doctrine that a defendant must 'take their victim as they find them'. If a single punch kills someone because of their thin skull, that victim's weakness...

Thru-Hiking Will Break Your Heart: An Adventure on the Pacific Crest Trail

Author

Carrot Quinn

Carrot Quinn fears that she's become addicted to the internet. The city makes her feel numb, and she's having trouble connecting with others. In a desperate move she breaks away from everything to walk 2,660 miles from Mexico to Canada on the Pacific Crest Trail. It will be her first long-distance hike.

In...

You Are Free

Author	Danzy Senna
ISBN	1594485070

From the bestselling author of Caucasia, riveting, unexpected stories about identity under the influence of appearances, attachments, and longing.

Look out for Danzy Senna's latest book, New People, on sale in August!

Each of these eight remarkable stories by Danzy Senna tightrope-walks...

The Erratics

Author	Vicki Laveau-Harvie
ISBN	0648100855

When her elderly mother is hospitalised after an accident, Vicki is summoned to her parents' isolated and run-down ranch home in Alberta, Canada, to care for her father. She has been estranged from her parents for many years (the reasons for which become quickly clear) and is horrified by what she discovers...

This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality

Author	Peter Pomerantsev
ISBN	1541762118

When information is a weapon, every opinion is an act of war.

We live in a world of influence operations run amok, where dark ads, psyops, hacks, bots, soft facts, ISIS, Putin, trolls, and Trump seek to shape our very reality. In this surreal atmosphere created to disorient us and undermine our...