The Miniature Wife and Other Stories

10 best books like The Miniature Wife and Other Stories (Manuel Gonzales): Your Duck Is My Duck: Stories, Jesus' Son, Vampires in the Lemon Grove, Revenge, Beasts of Burden: Animal Rites, Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law, Monstress, The Middlesteins, Stephen Florida, My Wicked Wicked Ways: Poems

Your Duck Is My Duck: Stories

Author	Deborah Eisenberg
ISBN	0062864688

6 Hours and 55 Minutes

A much-anticipated collection of brilliantly observant short stories from one of the great American masters of the form, performed by a remarkable cast: Deborah Eisenberg, Julianne Moore, Josh Hamilton, and Wallace Shawn.

At times raucously hilarious,...

Jesus' Son

Author	Denis Johnson
ISBN	0060975776

Jesus' Son, the first collection of stories by Denis Johnson, presents a unique, hallucinatory vision of contemporary American life unmatched in power and immediacy and marks a new level of achievement for this acclaimed writer. In their intensity of perception, their neon-lit evocation of a strange...

Vampires in the Lemon Grove

Author	Karen Russell
ISBN	0307957233

Named a Best Book of the Year by:
The Boston Globe
O, The Oprah Magazine
Huffington Post
The A.V. Club

A Washington Post Notable Book
An NPR Great Read of 2013

From the author of the novel Swamplandia!—a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize—comes a magical and...

Revenge

Author

Yōko Ogawa

Sinister forces draw together a cast of desperate characters in this eerie and absorbing novel from Yoko Ogawa.

An aspiring writer moves into a new apartment and discovers that her landlady has murdered her husband. Years later, the writer’s stepson reflects upon his stepmother and the...

Beasts of Burden: Animal Rites

Author	Evan Dorkin
ISBN	1595825134

Welcome to Burden Hill - A peaceful suburb like any other with white picket fences and vibrant green grass - home to an unlikely team of paranormal investigators.

Black magic, demonic frogs, and zombie roadkill are just a few of the problems plaguing this seemingly sleepy little town. With...

Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law

Author	Haben Girma
ISBN	1478992816

The incredible life story of Haben Girma, the first deafblind graduate of Harvard Law School, and her amazing journey from isolation to the world stage.

Haben grew up spending summers with her family in the enchanting Eritrean city of Asmara. There, she discovered courage as she faced off...

Monstress

Author	Lysley Tenorio
ISBN	0062059564

A luminous collection of heartbreaking, vivid, startling, and gloriously unique stories set amongst the Filipino-American communities of California and the Philippines.

A luminous collection of heartbreaking, vivid, startling, and gloriously unique stories set amongst the Filipino-American...

The Middlesteins

Author	Jami Attenberg
ISBN	1455507199

For more than thirty years, Edie and Richard Middlestein shared a solid family life together in the suburbs of Chicago. But now things are splintering apart, for one reason, it seems: Edie's enormous girth. She's obsessed with food--thinking about it, eating it--and if she doesn't stop, she won't...

Stephen Florida

Author	Gabe Habash
ISBN	1566894646

Barring a miracle, this is going to be my favorite book of the year - a totally unique wildchild of a novel tracking the senior year of a 133 pound division IV wrestler in North Dakota. We're firmly in Stephen's head the whole way, and Habash has created a unique voice here, an amalgam of obsession, diversion,...

My Wicked Wicked Ways: Poems

Author	Sandra Cisneros
ISBN	0679418210

This is the book and the poet responsible for me becoming totally hooked on poetry. I think it had a lot to do with the familiarity of the subject of the poems, growing up in working class Latino neighborhoods, the culture and just surviving the ever present cruelty of childhood.

Beautiful free...