Safe as Houses
10 best books like Safe as Houses (Marie-Helene Bertino): St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves, Vampires in the Lemon Grove, A Guide to Being Born: Stories, I Want to Show You More, Get in Trouble, Music Through the Floor, Sonny Liston was a Friend of Mine, The Isle of Youth: Stories, Once Upon a River, Please
St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves
| Author | Karen Russell |
| ISBN | 0307263983 |
In these ten glittering short stories, debut author Karen Russell takes us to the ghostly and magical swamps of the Florida Everglades. Here, wolf-like girls are reformed by nuns; a family makes its living wrestling alligators in a theme park; and little girls sail away on crab shells. Filled with stunning...
Vampires in the Lemon Grove
| Author | Karen Russell |
| ISBN | 0307957233 |
Named a Best Book of the Year by:
The Boston Globe
O, The Oprah Magazine
Huffington Post
The A.V. Club
A Washington Post Notable Book
An NPR Great Read of 2013
From the author of the novel Swamplandia!—a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize—comes a magical and...
A Guide to Being Born: Stories
| Author | Ramona Ausubel |
| ISBN | 1594487952 |
Reminiscent of Aimee Bender and Karen Russell—an enthralling collection that uses the world of the imagination to explore the heart of the human condition.
Major literary talent Ramona Ausubel, author of Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty, coming Summer 2016, combines the otherworldly...
Sharp-edged and fearless, mixing white-hot yearning with daring humor, Jamie Quatro’s debut collection is a beautiful and disquieting portrait of infidelity, faith, and family.
The hypnotically intimate, urgent stories in I Want to Show You More are about lives stretched between spirituality...
| Author | Kelly Link |
| ISBN | 0804179689 |
She has been hailed by Michael Chabon as “the most darkly playful voice in American fiction” and by Neil Gaiman as “a national treasure.” Now Kelly Link’s eagerly awaited new collection--her first for adult readers in a decade--proves indelibly that this bewitchingly original writer...
| Author | Eric Puchner |
| ISBN | 0743270460 |
With "Music Through the Floor," Pushcart Prize winner and former Wallace Stegner Fellow Eric Puchner makes an extraordinary debut: a collection of nine unforgettable stories -- strikingly original, fiercely funny, and quietly heartbreaking -- portraying a group of cultural misfits attempting...
Sonny Liston was a Friend of Mine
| Author | Thom Jones |
| ISBN | 0571201903 |
Dilapidated fight arenas, Christmas in a psychiatric ward, chaotic emergency rooms - this is the world of Thom Jones, whose stories have a passion and depth which put them in a league of their own.
Sonny Liston was a Friend of Mine, a collection of his stories, is a mixture of despair and exhilaration,...
| Author | Laura van den Berg |
| ISBN | 0374177236 |
Laura van den Berg's gorgeous new book, The Isle of Youth, explores the lives of women mired in secrecy and deception. From a newlywed caught in an inscrutable marriage, to private eyes working a baffling case in South Florida, to a teenager who assists her magician mother and steals from the audience,...
| Author | Bonnie Jo Campbell |
| ISBN | 0393079899 |
Bonnie Jo Campbell has created an unforgettable heroine in sixteen-year-old Margo Crane, a beauty whose unflinching gaze and uncanny ability with a rifle have not made her life any easier.
After the violent death of her father, in which she is complicit, Margo takes to the Stark River in her...
| Author | Jericho Brown |
| ISBN | 1930974795 |
Poetry. African American Studies. LGBT Studies. PLEASE explores the points in our lives at which love and violence intersect. Drunk on its own rhythms and full of imaginative and often frightening imagery, PLEASE is the album playing in the background of the history and culture that surround African...
