Say Her Name

6 best books like Say Her Name (Francisco Goldman): Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories, Rape: A Love Story, If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This, A Strange Stirring: The Feminine Mystique & American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s, Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship, Scribbling the Cat

Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories

Author	Sandra Cisneros
ISBN	0679738568

Last year I read Sandra Cisneros' House on Mango Street and felt an affinity toward her as I discovered that she grew up on the northwest side of Chicago and attended the University of Iowa Writers Workshop. Mostly an autobiographical account, Mango Street detailed the coming of age of a Mexican American...

Rape: A Love Story

Author	Joyce Carol Oates
ISBN	0786714824

Teena Maguire should not have tried to shortcut her way home that Fourth of July. Not after midnight, not through Rocky Point Park. Not the way she was dressed in a tank top, denim cutoffs, and high-heeled sandals. Not with her twelve-year-old daughter Bethie. Not with packs of local guys running loose...

If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This

Author	Robin Black
ISBN	1400068576

Heralding the arrival of a stunning new voice in American fiction, Robin Black’s If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This takes readers into the minds and hearts of people navigating the unsettling transitions that life presents to us all.

Written with maturity and insight, and in beautiful,...

A Strange Stirring: The Feminine Mystique & American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s

Author	Stephanie Coontz
ISBN	0465022324

In 1963, Betty Friedan unleashed a storm of controversy with her bestselling book, The Feminine Mystique. Hundreds of women wrote to her to say that the book had transformed, even saved, their lives. Nearly half a century later, many women still recall where they were when they first read it. In A Strange...

Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship

Author

Gail Caldwell

In Let’s Take the Long Walk Home, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Gail Caldwell has written a powerful and moving memoir about her coming-of-age in mid-life, and her extraordinary friendship with the author of Drinking: A Love Story, Caroline Knapp—fellow writers, AA members, dog lovers, and...

Scribbling the Cat

Author	Alexandra Fuller
ISBN	0330433997

When Alexandra Bo Fuller was in Zambia a few years ago visiting her parents, she asked her father about a nearby banana farmer who was known as being a tough bugger. Her father's response was a warning to steer clear of him: Curiosity scibbled the cat, he told her. Nonetheless, Fuller began her strange...