Reasons for and Advantages of Breathing

6 best books like Reasons for and Advantages of Breathing (Lydia Peelle): The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World, The Dive From Clausen's Pier, They Called Us Enemy, Simple Recipes, Vanishing and Other Stories, The Pharmacist's Mate

The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World

Author	Eric Weiner
ISBN	0446580260

Weiner spent a decade as a foreign correspondent reporting from such discontented locales as Iraq, Afghanistan, and Indonesia. Unhappy people living in profoundly unstable states, he notes, inspire pathos and make for good copy, but not for good karma. So Weiner, admitted grump and self-help book...

The Dive From Clausen's Pier

Author	Ann Packer
ISBN	0375727132

A suspenseful, richly layered first novel that asks: How much do we owe the people we love?

THE DIVE FROM CLAUSEN'S PIER will speak to all those who have ever thought about leaving when they knew they should stay, anyone who has ever felt trapped, not only by circumstance, but by the strength of...

They Called Us Enemy

Author	George Takei
ISBN	1603094504

A graphic memoir recounting actor/author/activist George Takei's childhood imprisoned within American concentration camps during World War II. Experience the forces that shaped an American icon -- and America itself.

Long before George Takei braved new frontiers in Star Trek, he woke...

Simple Recipes

Author	Madeleine Thien
ISBN	0771085117

Winner of the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize and the City of Vancouver Book Award, and a Regional Finalist for the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book

Longing, familiarity, and hope suffuse these stories as they mine the charged territory of relationships – subtly weaving in conflicts...

Vanishing and Other Stories

Author	Deborah Willis
ISBN	0062007521

“The emotional range and depth of these stories, their clarity and deftness, is astonishing.”
—Alice Munro

 

A finalist for the Governor General’s Awards, Vanishing and Other Stories is the stunning debut short story collection from Deborah Willis. Evocative and...

The Pharmacist's Mate

Author	Amy Fusselman
ISBN	0142002356

Named "It" Discovery Writer of the Year by Entertainment Weekly, Amy Fusselman took readers and critics alike by storm when McSweeney's published this powerful little book. In The Pharmacist's Mate, she writes of her father's death and her own attempts to become pregnant, weaving in excerpts from...