Tending to Virginia

9 best books like Tending to Virginia (Jill McCorkle): The Liars' Club, Further Tales of the City, Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory, The Turquoise Ledge: A Memoir, A Bigamist's Daughter, What the Buddha Never Taught: A 'Behind the Robes" Account of Life in a Thai Forest Monastery, Joy School, Heirs and Graces, Anatomy of a Disappearance

The Liars' Club

Author	Mary Karr
ISBN	0143035746

When it was published in 1995, Mary Karr's The Liars Club took the world by storm and raised the art of the memoir to an entirely new level, as well as bringing about a dramatic revival of the form. Karr's comic childhood in an east Texas oil town brings us characters as darkly hilarious as any of J. D. Salinger's—a...

Further Tales of the City

Author	Armistead Maupin
ISBN	0552998788

It took me 21 months to read this third volume. When Maupin comes up with a totally unbelievable plot line involving a resurrected Jim Jones, his kidnapping of two four-year-old children from an Alaskan cruise and then perhaps through Little Diomedes (a US island) to Big Diomedes (a Russian island)...

Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory

Author	Peter Hessler
ISBN	0061804096

From the bestselling author of Oracle Bones and River Town comes the final book in his award-winning trilogy, on the human side of the economic revolution in China. In the summer of 2001, Peter Hessler, the longtime Beijing correspondent for The New Yorker, acquired his Chinese driver's license. For...

The Turquoise Ledge: A Memoir

Author

Leslie Marmon Silko

A highly original and poetic self-portrait from one of America's most acclaimed writers.

Leslie Marmon Silko's new book, her first in ten years, combines memoir with family history and reflections on the creatures and beings that command her attention and inform her vision of the world,...

A Bigamist's Daughter

Author	Alice McDermott
ISBN	0747568251

I've read a few later Alice McDermott books, ones that centre more around Irish-American families, and while I can't say I adored them, they certainly struck me more than this book, one of her first, if not her very first, novels. A Bigamist's Daughter, well, I just can't quite figure out what this book...

What the Buddha Never Taught: A 'Behind the Robes" Account of Life in a Thai Forest Monastery

Author	Tim Ward
ISBN	1782792031

There is still a place in the jungles of Thailand, where you can leave it all behind... A cult classic and bestseller in the 1990s, What the Buddha Never Taught is a humorous behind the robes account of life inside one of the strictest jungle monasteries in Southeast Asia. In Pahnanachat, the monks keep...

Joy School

Author	Elizabeth Berg
ISBN	0099451751

Thirteen-year-old Katie is new to her Missouri town, living alone with a stern, inaccessible father following her mother's death. Unable to fit in at school, she forges alliances where she can: with her housekeeper, with a pimply fellow misfit named Cynthia, and with the gorgeous Taylor, who gets...

Heirs and Graces

Author

Rhys Bowen

As thirty-fifth in line for the throne, Lady Georgiana Rannoch may not be the most sophisticated young woman, but she knows her table manners. It's forks on the left, knives on the right, not in His Majesty's back.
Here I am thinking the education I received at my posh Swiss finishing school would...

Anatomy of a Disappearance

Author	Hisham Matar
ISBN	0385340443

Nuri is a young boy when his mother dies. It seems that nothing will fill the emptiness that her strange death leaves behind in the Cairo apartment he shares with his father. Until they meet Mona, sitting in her yellow swimsuit by the pool of the Magda Marina hotel. As soon as Nuri sees her, the rest of the...