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8 best books like Perma Red (Debra Magpie Earling): The Women of the Copper Country, Orange World and Other Stories, House Made of Dawn, My Body Is a Book of Rules, Winter in the Blood, A Good Cry: What We Learn From Tears and Laughter, The Wicked and the Just, Last Car Over the Sagamore Bridge

The Women of the Copper Country
AuthorMary Doria Russell
ISBN1982109580

In July 1913, twenty-five-year-old Annie Clements had seen enough of the world to know that it was unfair. She’s spent her whole life in the copper-mining town of Calumet, Michigan where men risk their lives for meager salaries—and had barely enough to put food on the table and clothes on their...
Orange World and Other Stories
AuthorKaren Russell
ISBN1984892215
From the Pulitzer Finalist and universally beloved author of the New York Times best sellers Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove, a stunning new collection of short fiction that showcases Karen Russell's extraordinary, irresistible gifts of language and imagination.

Karen Russell's...
House Made of Dawn
AuthorN. Scott Momaday
ISBN0072434201
The magnificent Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of a proud stranger in his native land.

He was a young American Indian named Abel, and he lived in two worlds. One was that of his father, wedding him to the rhythm of the seasons, the harsh beauty of the land, the ecstasy of the drug called peyote. The...
My Body Is a Book of Rules
AuthorElissa Washuta
ISBN1597099694
As Elissa Washuta makes the transition from college kid to independent adult, she finds herself overwhelmed by the calamities piling up in her brain. When her mood-stabilizing medications aren’t threatening her life, they’re shoving her from depression to mania and back in the space of an hour....
Winter in the Blood
AuthorJames Welch
ISBN0140086447
What caught my attention with this book was one of the blurbs on the cover (I read an edition different from the Penguin classics one) from Charles R. Larson from The New Republic that says:
"For some readers this will be the most significant piece of Indian writing they have yet encountered; for others,...
A Good Cry: What We Learn From Tears and Laughter
AuthorNikki Giovanni
ISBN0062399454
One of America’s most celebrated poets looks inward in this powerful collection, a rumination on her life and the people who have shaped her.

The poetry of Nikki Giovanni has spurred movements, turned hearts and informed generations. She’s been hailed as a firebrand, a radical, a healer,...
The Wicked and the Just
AuthorJ. Anderson Coats
ISBN0547688377
This powerful historical fiction debut, set in medieval Wales, follows Cecily whose family is lured by cheap land and the duty of all Englishman to help keep down the “vicious” Welshmen, and Gwenhwyfar, a Welsh girl who must wait hand and foot on her new English mistress. As issues of prejudice,...
Last Car Over the Sagamore Bridge
AuthorPeter Orner
ISBN0316224642
The long-awaited second collection of stories from a writer whose first was hailed as "one of the best story collections of the last decade" (Kevin Brockmeier).

In Last Car Over The Sagamore Bridge, Peter Orner presents a kaleidoscope of individual lives viewed in intimate close-up. A woman's...
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