The Teeth of the Comb & Other Stories

6 best books like The Teeth of the Comb & Other Stories (Osama Alomar): I and Thou, A Fortune for Your Disaster, An American Sunrise: Poems, We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria, The Jewel and Her Lapidary, The Book Rescuer: How a Mensch from Massachusetts Saved Yiddish Literature for Generations to Come

I and Thou

Author	Martin Buber
ISBN	0684717255

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Martin Buber's I and Thou has long been acclaimed as a classic. Many prominent writers have acknowledged its influence on their work; students of intellectual history consider it a landmark; and the generation born after World War II considers...

A Fortune for Your Disaster

Author

Hanif Abdurraqib

In his much-anticipated follow-up to The Crown Ain't Worth Much, poet, essayist, biographer, and music critic Hanif Abdurraqib has written a book of poems about how one rebuilds oneself after a heartbreak, the kind that renders them a different version of themselves than the one they knew. It's a book...

An American Sunrise: Poems

Author	Joy Harjo
ISBN	1324003863

In the early 1800s, the Mvskoke people were forcibly removed from their original lands east of the Mississippi to Indian Territory, which is now part of Oklahoma. Two hundred years later, Joy Harjo returns to her family’s lands and opens a dialogue with history. In An American Sunrise, Harjo finds...

We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria

Author	Wendy Pearlman
ISBN	0062654454

LONG-LISTED FOR THE CARNEGIE MEDAL

Reminiscent of the work of Nobel Prize winner Svetlana Alexievich, an astonishing collection of intimate wartime testimonies and poetic fragments from a cross-section of Syrians whose lives have been transformed by revolution, war, and flight.

Against...

The Jewel and Her Lapidary

Author	Fran Wilde
ISBN	0765389835

From Fran Wilde, the Andre Norton and Compton Crook Award-winning author of Updraft.

The kingdom in the Valley has long sheltered under the protection of its Jewels and Lapidaries, the people bound to singing gemstones with the power to reshape hills, move rivers, and warp minds. That power...

The Book Rescuer: How a Mensch from Massachusetts Saved Yiddish Literature for Generations to Come

Author	Sue Macy
ISBN	1481472208

“Stunning.”​ —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“Inspired...[a] journalistic, propulsive narrative.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“The story comes alive through the bold acrylic and gouache art.” —Booklist (starred review)

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