Sara, or The Existence of Fire
10 best books like Sara, or The Existence of Fire (Sara June Woods): In the Time of the Butterflies, Orange World and Other Stories, Night Sky with Exit Wounds, Calling a Wolf a Wolf, The Comfort of Strangers, Autobiography of Red, The Cheese Monkeys, Don't Call Us Dead, Madness, Stranger, Baby
In the Time of the Butterflies
| Author | Julia Alvarez |
| ISBN | 0452274427 |
Set during the waning days of the Trujillo dictatorship in the Dominican Republic in 1960, this extraordinary novel tells the story of the Mirabal sisters, three young wives and mothers who are assassinated after visiting their jailed husbands.
From the author of How the Garcia Girls Lost...
Orange World and Other Stories
| Author | Karen Russell |
| ISBN | 1984892215 |
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...
Night Sky with Exit Wounds
The most beautiful part of your body
is where it's headed, & remember
loneliness is still time spent
with the world.
To read Ocean Vuong's
Night Sky with Exit Wounds
is to be dazzled by gorgeous lyricism. I picked this up as part of my exploration of contemporary poetry I have...
| Author | Kaveh Akbar |
| ISBN | 1938584678 |
"The struggle from late youth on, with and without God, agony, narcotics and love is a torment rarely recorded with such sustained eloquence and passion as you will find in this collection." —Fanny Howe
This highly-anticipated debut boldly confronts addiction and courses the strenuous...
| Author | Ian McEwan |
| ISBN | 0679749845 |
This was exactly the novel I didn’t want to read, but at least it’s official now – NO MORE IAN MCEWAN BOOKS FOR ME, EVER. I would like to tell you how stupid this novel is, but Maciek beat me to it – see his great review here
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
So let me tell...
The award-winning poet Anne Carson reinvents a genre in Autobiography of Red, a stunning work that is both a novel and a poem, both an unconventional re-creation of an ancient Greek myth and a wholly original coming-of-age story set in the present.
Geryon, a young boy who is also a winged red...
| Author | Chip Kidd |
| ISBN | 0060507403 |
After 15 years of designing more than 1,500 book jackets at Knopf for such authors as Anne Rice and Michael Crichton, Kidd has crafted an affecting an entertaining novel set at a state university in the late 1950s that is both slap-happily funny and heartbreakingly sad. The Cheese Monkeys is a college...
| Author | Danez Smith |
| ISBN | 1555977855 |
Award-winning poet Danez Smith is a groundbreaking force, celebrated for deft lyrics, urgent subjects, and performative power. Don't Call Us Dead opens with a heartrending sequence that imagines an afterlife for black men shot by police, a place where suspicion, violence, and grief are forgotten...
| Author | Sam Sax |
| ISBN | 0143131702 |
An "astounding" (Terrance Hayes) debut collection of poems - Winner of the 2016 National Poetry Series Competition
In this ---powerful debut collection, sam sax explores and explodes the linkages between desire, addiction, and the history of mental health. These brave, formally dexterous...
| Author | Emily Berry |
| ISBN | 0571331327 |
The powerful new collection from award-winning poet Emily Berry.
Emily Berry's Dear Boy was described as a 'blazing debut', winning the Forward Prize for Best First Collection in 2013. Stranger, Baby, its follow-up, is marked by the same sense of fantasy and play, estrangement and edgy humour...
| Author | Ted Hughes |
| ISBN | 0571176550 |
Crow was Ted Hughes's fourth book of poems for adults and a pivotal moment in his writing career. In it, he found both a structure and a persona that gave his vision a new power and coherence. A. Alvarez wrote in the Observer, 'Each fresh encounter with despair becomes the occasion for a separate, almost...
my friend and i have a ritual of drinking red wine and reading poetry to each other. entire books swallowed in one sitting. no bathroom breaks, although some pausing for discussion of boys and breakdowns and breakthroughs are allowed. this wonderful collection is just like that moment you part from...
| Author | Richard Blanco |
| ISBN | 0822962012 |
Family continues to be a wellspring of inspiration and learning for Blanco. His third book of poetry, Looking for The Gulf Motel, is a genealogy of the heart, exploring how his family’s emotion legacy has shaped—and continues shaping—his perspectives. The collection is presented in three...
