Pain Woman Takes Your Keys, and Other Essays from a Nervous System

9 best books like Pain Woman Takes Your Keys, and Other Essays from a Nervous System (Sonya Huber): The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays, Make it Scream, Make it Burn, Thick: And Other Essays, Abandon Me: Memoirs, Wade in the Water: Poems, Invisible: How Young Women with Serious Health Issues Navigate Work, Relationships, and the Pressure to Seem Just Fine, Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession, What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays, The Two Kinds of Decay

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...

Make it Scream, Make it Burn

Author	Leslie Jamison
ISBN	0316259632

A new collection of essays about obsession and longing from Leslie Jamison, the New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams. A combination of memoir, criticism, and journalism, Make It Scream, Make It Burn is Leslie Jamison's profound exploration of the oceanic depths...

Thick: And Other Essays

Author	Tressie McMillan Cottom
ISBN	1620974363

Smart, humorous, and strikingly original thoughts on race, beauty, money, and more—by one of today's most intrepid public intellectuals

Tressie McMillan Cottom, the writer, professor, and acclaimed author of Lower Ed, now brilliantly shifts gears from running regression analyses...

Abandon Me: Memoirs

Author	Melissa Febos
ISBN	1632866579

For readers of Maggie Nelson and Leslie Jamison, a fierce and dazzling personal narrative that explores the many ways identity and art are shaped by love and loss.

In her critically acclaimed memoir, Whip Smart, Melissa Febos laid bare the intimate world of the professional dominatrix, turning...

Wade in the Water: Poems

Author

Tracy K. Smith

Shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize
Finalist for the Forward Prize for Best Collection

The extraordinary new poetry collection by Tracy K. Smith, the Poet Laureate of the United States Even the men in black armor, the ones
Jangling handcuffs and keys, what elseAre they...

Invisible: How Young Women with Serious Health Issues Navigate Work, Relationships, and the Pressure to Seem Just Fine

Author	Michele Lent Hirsch
ISBN	0807023957

An exploration of women navigating serious health issues at an age where they're expected to be healthy, dating, having careers and children.

Miriam's doctor didn't believe she had breast cancer. She did.

Sophie navigates being the only black scientist in her lab while studying...

Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession

Author	Rachel Monroe
ISBN	1501188887

A provocative and original investigation of our cultural fascination with crime, linking four archetypes—Detective, Victim, Attorney, Killer—to four true stories about women driven by obsession.

In this illuminating exploration of women, violence, and obsession, Rachel Monroe...

What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays

Author	Damon Young
ISBN	0062898221

From the cofounder of VerySmartBrothas.com, and one of the most read writers on race and culture at work today, a provocative and humorous memoir-in-essays that explores the ever-shifting definitions of what it means to be Black (and male) in America.

For Damon Young, existing while...

The Two Kinds of Decay

Author	Sarah Manguso
ISBN	0374280126

At twenty-one, just as she was starting to comprehend the puzzles of adulthood, Sarah Manguso was faced with another: a wildly unpredictable autoimmune disease that appeared suddenly and tore through her twenties, paralyzing her for weeks at a time, programming her first to expect nothing from life...