Tumbledown
10 best books like Tumbledown (Robert Boswell): Subtle Bodies, Let Him Go, Return to Oakpine, The Affairs of Others, The Celestials, The Blood of Heaven, The Explanation for Everything, Good Kids, The Sad Passions, Man Alive!
| Author | Norman Rush |
| Author | Larry Watson |
| ISBN | 1571311025 |
It’s September 1951: years since George and Margaret Blackledge lost their son James when he was thrown from a horse; months since James’s widow Lorna took off and remarried that...
| Author | Ron Carlson |
| ISBN | 0670025070 |
In this finely wrought portrait of western American life, Ron Carlson takes us to the small town of Oakpine, Wyoming, and into the lives of four...
| Author | Amy Grace Loyd |
| ISBN | 1250041295 |
Five years after her young husband's death, Celia Cassill has moved from one Brooklyn neighborhood to another, but she has not moved...
The Celestials
| Author | Karen Shepard |
| ISBN | 1935639552 |
| Author | Kent Wascom |
| ISBN | 0802121187 |
| Author | Lauren Grodstein |
| ISBN | 1616201126 |
Lauren Grodstein's New York Times bestselling novel A Friend of the Family was hailed as "such an incisive diagnosis of aspirational...
| Author | Benjamin Nugent |
| ISBN | 1439136599 |
The Sad Passions
| Author | Veronica Gonzalez Peña |
| ISBN | 1584351209 |
Told by six women in one family, Veronica Gonzalez Pena's The Sad Passions captures the alertness, beauty, and terror of childhood lived in proximity to madness. Set against the backdrop of a...
| Author | Mary Kay Zuravleff |
| ISBN | 0374202311 |
dealing with disaster, from a rising literary star.
All it takes is a quarter to change pediatric psychiatrist Dr. Owen Lerner’s life. When the coin he’s feeding into a parking meter is struck by lightning, Lerner survives,...
| Author | Louisa Hall |
| ISBN | 1451688636 |
After suffering a stroke, patriarch William Adair wakes up in his hospital bed and realizes that his...
| Author | Nicholson Baker |
| ISBN | 0399160965 |
i adore nicholson baker's writing voice and i really feel i can give no higher compliment than this: quite often it is how a writer's voice resonates with me that makes or breaks a novel for me; no matter what craft it might otherwise...
| Author | Hannah Weyer |
| ISBN | 0385537328 |
Written in an urban vernacular that’s electrifying and intimate, On the Come Up introduces a heroine whose voice is irrepressible,...
| Author | Lee Sandlin |
In The Distancers, seven generations worth of joy and heartache is artfully forged into a family portrait that is at once universally American...
| Author | Monica Trasandes |
An unforgettably haunting...
| Author | Tom Barbash |
The stories in Tom Barbash's evocative and often...
| Author | Tim Spector |
| ISBN | 0297866311 |
| Author | Patricia Engel |
| ISBN | 0802121519 |
Death of the Black-Haired Girl
| Author | Robert Stone |
| ISBN | 0618386238 |
Rockaway
| Author | Tara Ison |
| ISBN | 1593765169 |
Rockaway Beach, 2001. Sarah, a painter from southern California, retreats to this eccentric, eclectic beach town in the far reaches of Queens with the hopes of rediscovering her passion for painting. Sarah has the opportunity for a real gallery showing if only she can create some new and interesting...
In the Devil's Territory
| Author | Kyle Minor |
| ISBN | 0979312361 |
A schoolteacher escapes East Berlin at night, swimming the Spree River three times carrying elderly relatives...
The Other Room
| Author | Kim Triedman |
| ISBN | 0983476470 |
This Is Between Us
| Author | Kevin Sampsell |
| ISBN | 1935639706 |
Jordan's Brains: A Zombie Evolution
| Author | J. Cornell Michel |
| ISBN | 1482313502 |
| Author | Piero Ferrucci |
| ISBN | 0399171843 |
All of us experience periods of gloom, fear, and uncertainty. But we each...