The Boys in the Trees
10 best books like The Boys in the Trees (Mary Swan): An Orchestra of Minorities, Fugitive Pieces, The Last Time They Met, Aria, Queen of Dreams, All My Puny Sorrows, The Other Side of the Bridge, The Cure for Death by Lightning, Era of Ignition: Coming of Age in a Time of Rage and Revolution, The Orchard on Fire
An Orchestra of Minorities
| Author | Chigozie Obioma |
| ISBN | 0316412392 |
A heart-breaking and mythic story about a Nigerian poultry farmer who sacrifices everything to win the woman he loves, by Man Booker Finalist and author of The Fishermen, Chigozie Obioma.
A contemporary twist on the Odyssey, An Orchestra of Minorities is narrated by the chi, or spirit of a...
| Author | Anne Michaels |
| ISBN | 0679776591 |
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
Winner of the Lannan Literary Fiction Award
Winner of the Guardian Fiction Award
In 1940 a boy bursts from the mud of a war-torn Polish city, where he has buried himself to hide from the soldiers who murdered his family. His name is Jakob Beer....
| Author | Anita Shreve |
| ISBN | 0316713732 |
Traces the extraordinary resonance a single choice, even a single word, can have over the course of a lifetime. Seen through the eyes of young Linda Fallon and the young man who loves her.
Anita Shreve, the bestselling author of The Pilot's Wife, returns with a dazzling new novel about love,...
| Author | Nazanine Hozar |
| ISBN | 0345811828 |
This extraordinary, gripping debut is a rags-to-riches-to-revolution tale about an orphan girl's coming-of-age in Iran.
It is the early 1950s in a democratic but restless Iran, a country newly powerful with oil wealth but unsettled by class and religious divides and by the politics of...
| Author | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni |
| ISBN | 1400030447 |
From the bestselling author of Sister of My Heart comes a spellbinding tale of mothers and daughters, love and cultural identity. Rakhi, a young painter and single mother, is struggling to come to terms with her relationship with ex-husband Sonny, a hip Bay Area DJ, and with her dream-teller mother,...
| Author | Miriam Toews |
| ISBN | 0345808002 |
Miriam Toews is beloved for her irresistible voice, for mingling laughter and heartwrenching poignancy like no other writer. In her most passionate novel yet, she brings us the riveting story of two sisters, and a love that illuminates life.
You won’t forget Elf and Yoli, two smart and loving...
The Other Side of the Bridge
| Author | Mary Lawson |
| ISBN | 0385340370 |
From the author of the beloved #1 national bestseller Crow Lake comes an exceptional new novel of jealously, rivalry and the dangerous power of obsession.
Two brothers, Arthur and Jake Dunn, are the sons of a farmer in the mid-1930s, when life is tough and another world war is looming. Arthur...
| Author | Gail Anderson-Dargatz |
| ISBN | 1860493874 |
"The cure for death by lightning was handwritten in thick, messy blue ink in my mother’s scrapbook, under the recipe for my father’s favourite oatcakes: Dunk the dead by lightning in a cold water bath for two hours and if still dead, add vinegar and soak for an hour more."
So begins Gail Anderson-Dargatz’s...
Era of Ignition: Coming of Age in a Time of Rage and Revolution
| Author | Amber Tamblyn |
| ISBN | 1984822985 |
A passionate manifesto with personal stories, anecdotes, and opinions from the front lines of modern American womanhood from actor, filmmaker, and activist Amber Tamblyn
Amber Tamblyn is one of the most talked-about feminist voices today. Through her fierce op-eds in media outlets such...
| Author | Shena Mackay |
| ISBN | 0749394064 |
When Percy and Betty Harlency abandon their seedy Streatham pub, for the Copper Kettle Tearoom in Kent, life for their daughter April changes dramatically. She is befriended by the wonderfully dangerous Ruby, whose red hair and brutal home life emphasise her love of fire, and by the immaculately dressed...
| Author | John Bemrose |
| ISBN | 0719566703 |
A stunning debut novel of power and grace that tells the story of a family that slips from fortune's favour in a southwestern Ontario mill town during the mid-1960s
Within a bend in the Attawan River lies the Island, a small neighbourhood of white-washed houses and vine-freighted fences, black...
Le sumo qui ne pouvait pas grossir
| Author | Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt |
| ISBN | 2226190902 |
Dans une ville du Japon, de nos jours, un garçon de 10 ans grandit dans un orphelinat. Son père est mort de surmenage professionnel et sa mère est atteinte de cyclothymie aiguë. Comme tous les enfants de son âge, il est passionné de technologies et de jeux vidéo. Étrangement, il a attiré l'attention...
| Author | Douglas Coupland |
| ISBN | 0307357724 |
“Now you young twerps want a new name for your generation? Probably not, you just want jobs, right? Well, the media do us all such tremendous favors when they call you Generation X, right? Two clicks from the very end of the alphabet. I hereby declare you Generation A, as much at the beginning of a series...
From the bestselling author of The Piano Maker comes a stunning, profoundly moving story about motherhood, grief, marriage, and friendship. For fans of M. L. Stedman's The Light Between Oceans.
Margaret Bradley is the most senior associate at a prestigious law firm, and she is on track to...
| Author | Ian Williams |
| ISBN | 0735274053 |
A hilarious, surprising and poignant love story about the way families are invented, told with the savvy of a Zadie Smith and with an inventiveness all Ian Williams' own, Reproduction bangs lives together in a polyglot suburb of Toronto.
Felicia and Edgar meet as their mothers are dying. Felicia,...
Sleep can be a blessing.
Or,… otherwise.
By the time I was reading this Murakami’s it just happened I watched a tape by famous Sleep researcher, psychiatrist W. Dement. His research on REM (rapid eye movements) and dreams had been long and very enlightening. He started...
| Author | Terry Fallis |
| ISBN | 0771050968 |
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
From two-time Leacock Medal winner Terry Fallis comes a funny and smart new novel about destiny--and what it means to forge your own path.
Adam Coryell is your average high-school student--well, except for that obsession with fountain pens--when his life changes...
| Author | Jeffrey Ford |
| ISBN | 0060936193 |
The Great Depression has bound a nation in despair -- and only a privileged few have risen above it: the exorbitantly wealthy ... and the hucksters who feed upon them. Diego, a seventeen-year-old illegal Mexican immigrant, owes his salvation to master grifter Thomas Schell. Together with Schell's...
