Night at the Fiestas

10 best books like Night at the Fiestas (Kirstin Valdez Quade): Heads of the Colored People, The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays, Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self, Battleborn, Death Is Not an Option, Sabrina & Corina: Stories, Music for Wartime: Stories, The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears, Collected Poems in English, Bear Down, Bear North: Alaska Stories

Heads of the Colored People

Author	Nafissa Thompson-Spires
ISBN	1501167995

Calling to mind the best works of Paul Beatty and Junot Díaz, this collection of moving, timely, and darkly funny stories examines the concept of black identity in this so-called post-racial era.

A stunning new talent in literary fiction, Nafissa Thompson-Spires grapples with black identity...

The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays

Author	Esmé Weijun Wang
ISBN	1555978274

An intimate, moving book written with the immediacy and directness of one who still struggles with the effects of mental and chronic illness, The Collected Schizophrenias cuts right to the core. Schizophrenia is not a single unifying diagnosis, and Esmé Weijun Wang writes not just to her fellow members...

Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self

Author	Danielle Evans
ISBN	1594487693

Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self offers a bold new perspective on the experience of being young and African-American or mixed-race in modern-day America. In each of her stories, Danielle Evans explores the non-white American experience with honesty, wisdom, and humor. They are striking in...

Battleborn

Author	Claire Vaye Watkins
ISBN	1594488258

Winner of the 2012 Story Prize
Recipient of the 2012 American Academy of Arts and Letters Rosenthal Foundation Award
A National Book Foundation "5 Under 35" fiction writer of 2012

Like the work of Cormac McCarthy, Denis Johnson, Richard Ford, and Annie Proulx, Battleborn represents...

Death Is Not an Option

Author	Suzanne Rivecca
ISBN	0393072568

Death Is Not an Option is a bold, dazzling debut collection about girls and women in a world where sexuality and self-delusion collide. In these stories, a teacher obsesses over a student who comes to class with scratch marks on his face; a Catholic girl graduating high school finds a warped kind of redemption...

Sabrina & Corina: Stories

Author

Kali Fajardo-Anstine

A haunting debut story collection on friendship, mothers and daughters, and the deep-rooted truths of our homelands, centered on Latinas of indigenous ancestry that shines a new light on the American West.

Kali Fajardo-Anstine’s magnetic story collection breathes life into her Latina...

Music for Wartime: Stories

Author	Rebecca Makkai
ISBN	0525426698

Named a must-read by the  Chicago Tribune , O Magazine,  BuzzFeed ,  The Huffington Post ,  Minneapolis Star-Tribune , and The L Magazine

Named one of the best short story collections of 2015 by Bookpage and Kansas City Star

Rebecca Makkai’s first two novels,...

The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears

Author	Dinaw Mengestu
ISBN	1594489408

A haunting and powerful first novel that views the streets of Washington, D.C. and Addis Ababa through the eyes of Sepha who, seventeen years ago, fled Ethiopia during the Revolution, and now runs a failing convenience store in a poor African-American neighborhood in Washington. Published as The...

Collected Poems in English

Author	Joseph Brodsky
ISBN	0374528381

One of the greatest and grandest advocates of the literary vocation, Joseph Brodsky truly lived his life as a poet, and for it earned eighteen months of internal exile at hard labor, expulsion from his native country, and the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Here, collected for the first time, are...

Bear Down, Bear North: Alaska Stories

Author	Melinda Moustakis
ISBN	0820338931

In her debut collection, Melinda Moustakis brings to life a rough-and-tumble family of Alaskan homesteaders through a series of linked stories. Born in Alaska herself to a family with a homesteading legacy, Moustakis examines the near-mythological accounts of the Alaskan wilderness that are her...

Fire on the Mountain

Author	Edward Abbey
ISBN	0380714604

Edward Abbey was a hero to environmentalists and rebels of every stripe. With Fire on the Mountain, this literary giant of the New West gave readers a powerful, moving, and enduring tale that gloriously celebrates the undying spirit of American individualism. This fiftieth anniversary edition,...