Salvation City

7 best books like Salvation City (Sigrid Nunez): How We Fight For Our Lives, Your Duck Is My Duck: Stories, The Body in Question, Liquid Rules: The Delightful and Dangerous Substances That Flow Through Our Lives, A Collapse of Horses, This Beautiful Life, Catastrophic Happiness: Finding Joy in Childhood's Messy Years

How We Fight For Our Lives
AuthorSaeed Jones
ISBN1501132733
From award-winning poet Saeed Jones, How We Fight for Our Lives is a stunning coming-of-age memoir written at the crossroads of sex, race, and power.

“People don’t just happen,” writes Saeed Jones. “We sacrifice former versions of ourselves. We sacrifice the people who dared to...
AuthorDeborah Eisenberg
ISBN0062864688
6 Hours and 55 Minutes

A much-anticipated collection of brilliantly observant short stories from one of the great American masters of the form, performed by a remarkable cast: Deborah Eisenberg, Julianne Moore, Josh Hamilton, and Wallace Shawn.

At times raucously hilarious,...
The Body in Question
AuthorJill Ciment
5 hours, 26 minutes

From the author of Heroic Measures (“Smart and funny and completely surprising . . . I loved every page” —Ann Patchett), Act of God (“A feat of literary magic”—Booklist) and, with Amy Hempel, The Hand That Feeds You (“An unnerving, elegant page-turner”...
Liquid Rules: The Delightful and Dangerous Substances That Flow Through Our Lives
AuthorMark Miodownik
Líquidos. Essas substâncias mágicas que fluem pelas nossas vidas.

Da revolucionária caneta de László Biro, ao querosene de Abraham Gesner, das estradas que se reparam automaticamente, passando pelo café, pelo chá ou pela água, Miodownik usa a sua enorme capacidade de divulgador...
A Collapse of Horses
AuthorBrian Evenson
ISBN1566894131
5 word review (not counting these words here, hidden in the parenthesis, but these stories were so weird and disturbing and burrowing, yes, burrowing, inside, inside you.)

Loved it. And blurbed it.

Here's my blurb!

“Brian Evenson's collection A Collapse of Horses is...
AuthorHelen Schulman
ISBN0062024388
When fifteen-year-old Jake Bergamot receives—and then forwards to a friend—a sexually explicit video that an eighth-grade admirer sent to him, the video goes viral within hours. The scandal that ensues threatens to shatter his family’s sense of security and identity—and, ultimately,...
Catastrophic Happiness: Finding Joy in Childhood's Messy Years
AuthorCatherine Newman
ISBN0316337501
A comic and heartwarming memoir about childhood's second act from Real Simple journalist Catherine Newman.
Much is written about a child's infancy and toddler years, which is good since children will never remember it themselves. It is ages 4-14 that make up the second act, as Catherine Newman...
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