Signals: New and Selected Stories

8 best books like Signals: New and Selected Stories (Tim Gautreaux): How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays, Who Is Rich?, Our Homesick Songs, Through the Safety Net, Secretariat Reborn: A Novel, Waste, The Lost Kitchen: Recipes and a Good Life Found in Freedom, Maine: A Cookbook, Where You Once Belonged

How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays

Author	Alexander Chee
ISBN	1328764524

From the author of The Queen of the Night, an essay collection exploring his education as a man, writer, and activist—and how we form our identities in life and in art.

As a novelist, Alexander Chee has been described as “masterful” by Roxane Gay, “incendiary” by the New York Times,...

Who Is Rich?

Author	Matthew Klam
ISBN	0812997980

Every year, Rich Fischer leaves his family behind to teach a class on cartooning at an annual week-long summer arts conference. Amy O’Donnell is a student in narrative painting, the mother of three, married to a brutish Wall Street titan who runs a multi-billion dollar private equity fund. Rich and...

Our Homesick Songs

Author

Emma Hooper

From Emma Hooper, critically acclaimed author of Etta and Otto and Russell and James, a People magazine “Pick of the Week,” comes a lyrical, charming, and mystical story of a family on the edge of extinction, and the different way each of them fights to keep hope, memory, and love alive.

The...

Through the Safety Net

Author	Charles Baxter
ISBN	0679776494

Baxter dives into the undercurrents of middle-class American life in these eleven arresting, often mesmerizing stories. Whether they know it or not, Baxter's characters are floating above an abyss of unruly desire, inexplicable dread, unforeseen tragedy, and sudden moments of grace.

A...

Secretariat Reborn: A Novel

Author	Susan Klaus
ISBN	1608090949

Christian Roberts, lanky, blond, and twenty-five-years-old, rents out small sailboats on Sarasota Bay. His peaceful life is shattered when he accepts a thoroughbred colt from his estranged, dying father, an Ocala horse trainer.
When Christian promises his father that he'll race the colt,...

Waste

Author	Andrew F. Sullivan
ISBN	1938103408

Larkhill, Ontario. 1989. A city on the brink of utter economic collapse. On the brink of violence. Driving home one night, unlikely passengers Jamie Garrison and Moses Moon hit a lion at fifty miles an hour. Both men stumble away from the freak accident unharmed, but neither reports the bizarre incident....

The Lost Kitchen: Recipes and a Good Life Found in Freedom, Maine: A Cookbook

Author	Erin French
ISBN	0553448439

An evocative, gorgeous four-season look at cooking in Maine, with 100 recipes

No one can bring small-town America to life better than a native. Erin French grew up in Freedom, Maine (population 719), helping her father at the griddle in his diner. An entirely self-taught cook who used cookbooks...

Where You Once Belonged

Author

Kent Haruf

Heavy-built Jack Burdette is quite literally too big for his boots - and too big, certainly for the small-town attitudes of Holt, Colorado. But when he fails to make the grade as a college footballer, and takes a job with the local farmers' co-operative, it seems he has finally settled into the rhythm...