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The Bitch Is Back: Older, Wiser, and (Getting) Happier

8 best books like The Bitch Is Back: Older, Wiser, and (Getting) Happier (Cathi Hanauer): What My Mother and I Don't Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence, The Night of the Gun, An American Summer: Love and Death in Chicago, The Confidence Game: Why We Fall for It . . . Every Time, The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative, Some Tame Gazelle, Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country, Small Animals: Parenthood in the Age of Fear

What My Mother and I Don't Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence
AuthorMichele Filgate
ISBN1982107340
*Most Anticipated Reads of 2019 by Publishers Weekly, BuzzFeed, The Rumpus, Lit Hub, The Week, and Elle.com*

Fifteen brilliant writers explore what we don’t talk to our mothers about, and how it affects us, for better or for worse.

As an undergraduate, Michele Filgate started...
The Night of the Gun
AuthorDavid Carr
ISBN1416541527
Do we remember only the stories we can live with?The ones that make us look good in the rearview mirror? In "The Night of the Gun," David Carr redefines memoir with the revelatory story of his years as an addict and chronicles his journey from crack-house regular to regular columnist for "The New York Times."...
An American Summer: Love and Death in Chicago
AuthorAlex Kotlowitz
ISBN1984841173
From the bestselling author of There Are No Children Here, a richly textured, heartrending portrait of love and death in Chicago's most turbulent neighborhoods.

The numbers are staggering: over the past twenty years in Chicago, 14,033 people have been killed and another roughly 60,000...
The Confidence Game: Why We Fall for It . . . Every Time
AuthorMaria Konnikova
ISBN0525427414
From the New York Times bestselling author of Mastermind, a compelling investigation into the minds, motives, and methods of con artists—and the people who fall for their cons over and over again

While cheats and swindlers may be a dime a dozen, true conmen—the Bernie Madoffs, the Jim...
The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative
AuthorVivian Gornick
ISBN0374528586
A guide to the art of personal writing, by the author of Fierce Attachments and The End of the Novel of Love

All narrative writing must pull from the raw material of life a tale that will shape experience, transform event, deliver a bit of wisdom. In a story or a novel the "I" who tells this tale can...
Some Tame Gazelle
AuthorBarbara Pym
ISBN1559212640
Barbara Pym is a master at capturing the subtle mayhem that takes place in the apparent quiet of the English countryside. Fifty-something sisters Harriet and Belinda Bede live a comfortable, settled existence. Belinda, the quieter of the pair, has for years been secretly in love with the town's pompous...
Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country
AuthorPam Houston
On her 120-acre homestead high in the Colorado Rockies, beloved writer Pam Houston learns what it means to care for a piece of land and the creatures on it. Houston’s ranch becomes her sanctuary, a place where she discovers how the natural world has mothered and healed her after a childhood of parental...
Small Animals: Parenthood in the Age of Fear
AuthorKim Brooks
ISBN1250089557
"Part memoir, part history, part documentary, part impassioned manifesto...it might be the most important book about being a parent that you will ever read." --Emily Rapp Black, New York Times bestselling author of The Still Point of the Turning World

"A beautifully told, harrowing story..."--Heather...
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