The Changeling
10 best books like The Changeling (Joy Williams): The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays, Orange World and Other Stories, Kudos, The Third Hotel, The Undying, Ghost Wall, Corregidora, The Word Pretty, The Green Hand and Other Stories, The Seas
The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
| Author | Esmé Weijun Wang |
| ISBN | 1555978274 |
An intimate, moving book written with the immediacy and directness of one who still struggles with the effects of mental and chronic illness, The Collected Schizophrenias cuts right to the core. Schizophrenia is not a single unifying diagnosis, and Esmé Weijun Wang writes not just to her fellow members...
Orange World and Other Stories
| Author | Karen Russell |
| ISBN | 1984892215 |
From the Pulitzer Finalist and universally beloved author of the New York Times best sellers Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove, a stunning new collection of short fiction that showcases Karen Russell's extraordinary, irresistible gifts of language and imagination.
Karen Russell's...
| Author | Rachel Cusk |
| ISBN | 1473524334 |
Rachel Cusk, the award-winning and critically acclaimed author of Outline and Transit, completes the transcendent literary trilogy with Kudos, a novel of unsettling power.
A woman writer visits a Europe in flux, where questions of personal and political identity are rising to the surface...
| Author | Laura van den Berg |
| ISBN | 0374168350 |
In Havana, Cuba, a widow tries to come to terms with her husband’s death―and the truth about their marriage―in Laura van den Berg’s surreal, mystifying story of psychological reflection and metaphysical mystery.
Shortly after Clare arrives in Havana, Cuba, to attend the annual...
Award-winning poet and essayist Anne Boyer delivers a one-of-a-kind meditation on illness in the age of data—sharing her true story of coping with cancer, both the illness and the industry, in The Undying.
A week after her forty-first birthday, the acclaimed poet Anne Boyer was diagnosed...
| Author | Sarah Moss |
| ISBN | 1783784458 |
In the north of England, far from the intrusions of cities but not far from civilization, Silvie and her family are living as if they are ancient Britons, surviving by the tools and knowledge of the Iron Age.
For two weeks, the length of her father's vacation, they join an anthropology course...
| Author | Gayl Jones |
| ISBN | 0807063150 |
Here is Gayl Jones's classic novel, the tale of blues singer Ursa, consumed by her hatred of the nineteenth-century slave master who fathered both her grandmother and mother.
From the back cover: "History and fiction have yielded little about those black slave women who were mistress and...
| Author | Elisa Gabbert |
| ISBN | 1939568269 |
Elisa Gabbert's recent essay in The Paris Review—"On Writerly Jealousy"—made me very glad not to be a nonfiction writer, because Gabbert's essays collected here are exactly the sort that would drive me batty with jealousy. "Reading writers I admire writing about things I want to write about,...
The Green Hand and Other Stories
| Author | Nicole Claveloux |
| ISBN | 1681371073 |
Nicole Claveloux s short stories originally published in the late 1970s and never before collected in English are among the most beautiful comics ever created: whimsical, intoxicating, with the freshness and splendor of dreams. In hallucinatory color or elegant black-and-white, she brings us...
| Author | Samantha Hunt |
| ISBN | 0312425236 |
The narrator of The Seas lives in a tiny, remote, alcoholic, cruel seaside town. An occasional chambermaid, granddaughter to a typesetter, and daughter to a dead man, awkward and brave, wayward and willful, she is in love (unrequited) with an Iraq War veteran thirteen years her senior. She is convinced...
| Author | Yukio Mishima |
| ISBN | 0811228428 |
All eyes are upon Rikio. And he likes it, mostly. His fans cheer from a roped-off section, screaming and yelling to attract his attention—they would kill for a moment alone with him. Finally the director sets up the shot, the camera begins to roll, someone yells “action”; Rikio, for a moment, transforms...
Monstress, Vol. 4: The Chosen
| Author | Marjorie M. Liu |
| ISBN | 1534313362 |
Maika and Corvin make their way through a warped and lethal land in search of Kippa, who is faced with her own terrible monsters. But when Maika comes face-to-face with a stranger from her deep past, startling truths are uncovered, and at the center of it all lurks a dangerous conspiracy that threatens...
