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10 best books like This Beautiful Life (Helen Schulman): Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self, Time of My Life, The Newlyweds, The Grief of Others, Learning to Breathe: My Yearlong Quest to Bring Calm to My Life, Crush: 26 Real-life Tales of First Love, Someday This Will Be Funny, The Year We Left Home, Swim Back to Me, In Zanesville

Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self
AuthorDanielle Evans
ISBN1594487693
Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self offers a bold new perspective on the experience of being young and African-American or mixed-race in modern-day America. In each of her stories, Danielle Evans explores the non-white American experience with honesty, wisdom, and humor. They are striking in...
Time of My Life
AuthorAllison Winn Scotch
ISBN0307408574
Jillian Westfield has the perfect suburban life straight out of the upscale women's magazines that she obsessively reads. She’s got the modern-print rugs of Metropolitan Home, the elegant meals from Gourmet, the clutter-free closets out of Real Simple, and the elaborate Easter egg hunts seen...
The Newlyweds
AuthorNell Freudenberger
ISBN0307268845
A powerful, funny, richly observed tour de force by one of America's most acclaimed young writers: a story of love and marriage, secrets and betrayals.

A powerful, funny, richly observed tour de force by one of America's most acclaimed young writers: a story of love and marriage, secrets and...
The Grief of Others
AuthorLeah Hager Cohen
ISBN1594488053
Is keeping a secret from a spouse always an act of infidelity? And what cost does such a secret exact on a family? The Ryries have suffered a loss: the death of a baby just fifty-seven hours after his birth. Without words to express their grief, the parents, John and Ricky, try to return to their previous...
Learning to Breathe: My Yearlong Quest to Bring Calm to My Life
AuthorPriscilla Warner
ISBN1439181071
Priscilla Warner has had a great life: a supportive husband, a flourishing marriage, two loving sons, and a bestselling book, The Faith Club. Despite all her good fortune and success, she suffers from anxiety and panic attacks so debilitating that they leave her unable to breathe. She’s tried self-medicating—in...
Crush: 26 Real-life Tales of First Love
AuthorAndrea N. Richesin
ISBN0373892330
Readers will fall head over heels for this nostalgic and irreverent collection.Twenty-six bestselling authors return to the teenage bedrooms, school hallways and college dorms of their youth to share passionate essays of love lost and found and lessons learned along the way. Whether heartbreaking...
Someday This Will Be Funny
AuthorLynne Tillman
ISBN1935869000
The stories in Some Day This Will Be Funny marry memory to moment in a union of narrative form as immaculate and imperfect as the characters damned to act them out on page. Lynne Tillman, author of American Genius, presides over the ceremony; Clarence Thomas, Marvin Gaye, and Madame Realism mingle at...
The Year We Left Home
AuthorJean Thompson
ISBN1439175888
From National Book Award–finalist Jean Thompson comes a mesmerizing, decades-spanning saga of one ordinary American family—proud, flawed, hopeful—whose story simultaneously captures the turbulent history of the country at large.
In The Year We Left Home, Thompson brings together...
Swim Back to Me
AuthorAnn Packer
ISBN0307877922
From Ann Packer, author of the New York Times best-selling novels The Dive from Clausen’s Pier and Songs Without Words, a collection of burnished, emotionally searing stories, framed by two unforgettable linked narratives that express the transformation of a single family over the course of a...
In Zanesville
AuthorJo Ann Beard
ISBN0316084476
The beguiling fourteen-year-old narrator of IN ZANESVILLE is a late bloomer. She is used to flying under the radar-a sidekick, a third wheel, a marching band dropout, a disastrous babysitter, the kind of girl whose Eureka moment is the discovery that "fudge" can't be said with an English accent.

Luckily,...
Once Upon a River
AuthorBonnie Jo Campbell
ISBN0393079899
Bonnie Jo Campbell has created an unforgettable heroine in sixteen-year-old Margo Crane, a beauty whose unflinching gaze and uncanny ability with a rifle have not made her life any easier.

After the violent death of her father, in which she is complicit, Margo takes to the Stark River in her...
The Beginners
AuthorRebecca Wolff
ISBN1594487995
The chilling, hypnotically beautiful story of a girl whose coming of age is darkened by the secret history of her small New England town.

Theo and Raquel Motherwell are the only newcomers to the sleepy town of Wick in fifteen-year-old Ginger Pritt's memory. Hampered by a lingering innocence...
American Salvage
AuthorBonnie Jo Campbell
“These short stories approach their subjects from an array of perspectives, but what they share is freshness, surprise, and a compulsion to plumb some absolute extremes of American existence.”—National Book Award citation

American Salvage is rich with local color and peopled with...
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