The Water Museum

10 best books like The Water Museum (Luis Alberto Urrea): On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir, She of the Mountains, Song Yet Sung, While the City Slept: A Love Lost to Violence and a Young Man's Descent into Madness, A Different Drummer, Lightspeed Magazine, September 2017, Tiger Baby, Upgraded, Cuisine des Mémoires

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

Author	Ocean Vuong
ISBN	0525562028

Poet Ocean Vuong's debut novel is a shattering portrait of a family, a first love, and the redemptive power of storytelling.

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family's...

The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir

Author	Samantha Power
ISBN	0062820710

Pulitzer Prize winner Samantha Power, widely known as a relentless advocate for promoting human rights, has been heralded by President Barack Obama as one of America's "foremost thinkers on foreign policy."

In her memoir, Power offers an urgent response to the question "What can one person...

She of the Mountains

Author	Vivek Shraya
ISBN	1551525607

Finalist, Lambda Literary Award

In the beginning, there is no he. There is no she.

Two cells make up one cell. This is the mathematics behind creation. One plus one makes one. Life begets life. We are the period to a sentence, the effect to a cause, always belonging to someone. We are never...

Song Yet Sung

Author	James McBride
ISBN	1594489726

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Good Lord Bird, winner of the 2013 National Book Award for Fiction.

In the days before the Civil War, a runaway slave named Liz Spocott breaks free from her captors and escapes into the labyrinthine swamps of Maryland’s eastern shore, setting...

While the City Slept: A Love Lost to Violence and a Young Man's Descent into Madness

Author	Eli Sanders
ISBN	0670015717

“Binged Making a Murderer? Try . . . [this] riveting portrait of a tragic, preventable crime.” —Entertainment Weekly

A Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter’s gripping account of one young man’s path to murder—and a wake-up call for mental health care in America
 
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A Different Drummer

Author	William Melvin Kelley
ISBN	0385413904

Set in a mythical backwater Southern town, A Different Drummer is the extraordinary story of Tucker Caliban, a quiet, determined descendant of an African chief who for no apparent reason destroys his farm and heads for parts unknown--setting off a mass exodus of the state's entire Black population.

Nearly...

Lightspeed Magazine, September 2017

Author

John Joseph Adams

LIGHTSPEED is an online science fiction and fantasy magazine. In its pages, you will find science fiction: from near-future, sociological soft SF, to far-future, star-spanning hard SF--and fantasy: from epic fantasy, sword-and-sorcery, and contemporary urban tales, to magical realism, science-fantasy,...

Tiger Baby

Author

JY Yang

A story about a woman who is actually a tiger in a woman's body. I dunno, I got some kind of low grade vibes that this might have been trying to make a point about trans people, but that could be me reading way too much into in.
Anyhow, the main character just struck me as kind of annoying. Yes-yes, we get...

Upgraded

Author	Neil Clarke
ISBN	1890464309

An anthology of original cyborg stories edited by a cyborg. Stronger. Better. Faster. We will rebuild you.

CONTENTS

Introduction by Neil Clarke
Come From Away by Madeline Ashby
No Place to Dream, but a Place to Die by Elizabeth Bear
Married by Helena Bell
A Cold Heart...

Cuisine des Mémoires

Author

N K Jemisin

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