The Abundance

8 best books like The Abundance (Amit Majmudar): Cantoras, Pet, Home Remedies, Stag's Leap: Poems, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, La mucama de Omicunlé, The Ungrateful Refugee, Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen

Cantoras
AuthorCarolina De Robertis
ISBN0525521690
"Cantoras is a stunning lullaby to revolution--and each woman in this novel sings it with a deep ferocity. Again and again, I was lifted, then gently set down again--either through tears, rage, or laughter. Days later, I am still inside this song of a story."--Jacqueline Woodson, National Book Award-winning...
Pet
AuthorAkwaeke Emezi
Pet is here to hunt a monster.
Are you brave enough to look?

There are no more monsters anymore, or so the children in the city of Lucille are taught. With doting parents and a best friend named Redemption, Jam has grown up with this lesson all her life. But when she meets Pet, a creature made...
Home Remedies
AuthorXuan Juliana Wang
ISBN1984822748
In twelve stunning stories of love, family, and identity, Xuan Juliana Wang’s debut collection captures the unheard voices of an emerging generation. Young, reckless, and catapulted toward uncertain futures, here is the new face of Chinese youth on a quest for every kind of freedom.

From...
AuthorSharon Olds
ISBN0375712259
Stag’s Leap is stunningly poignant sequence of poems that tells the story of a divorce, embracing strands of love, sex, sorrow, memory, and new freedom.

In this wise and intimate telling—which carries us through the seasons when her marriage was ending—Sharon Olds opens her heart...
Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
AuthorRoss Gay
ISBN0822963310
Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude is a sustained meditation on that which goes away—loved ones, the seasons, the earth as we know it—that tries to find solace in the processes of the garden and the orchard. That is, this is a book that studies the wisdom of the garden and orchard, those places where all—death,...
AuthorRita Indiana
ISBN9788416291
Esta apabullante novela, que supone la consagración de Rita Indiana como narradora, tiene tantas capas de lectura y tantos giros fascinantes que rehuye toda síntesis, todo encorsetamiento. Es más, sólo cabe una invitación entusiasta a la lectura por parte de los editores.
Aunque para...
The Ungrateful Refugee
AuthorDina Nayeri
ISBN1948226421
A Finalist for the 2019 Kirkus Prize in Nonfiction

"Nayeri combines her own experience with those of refugees she meets as an adult, telling their stories with tenderness and reverence.” ―The New York Times Book Review

"Nayeri weaves her empowering personal story with those...
Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen
AuthorJose Antonio Vargas
ISBN0062851365
Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas, called “the most famous undocumented immigrant in America,” tackles one of the defining issues of our time in this explosive and deeply personal call to arms.

“This is not a book about the politics of immigration. This book––at...
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