Visible City
9 best books like Visible City (Tova Mirvis): Akin, The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother's Life in the Detroit Numbers, The Jumbie God's Revenge, If, Then, The Other Typist, Fin & Lady, If All the Seas Were Ink: A Memoir, The Valedictorian of Being Dead: The True Story of Dying Ten Times to Live, Tell Me Everything You Don't Remember: The Stroke That Changed My Life
| Author | Emma Donoghue |
| ISBN | 0316491993 |
A retired New York professor's life is thrown into chaos when he takes a young great-nephew to the French Riviera, in hopes of uncovering his own mother's wartime secrets in the next masterpiece from New York Times bestselling author Emma Donoghue.
Noah Selvaggio is a retired chemistry professor...
The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother's Life in the Detroit Numbers
| Author | Bridgett M. Davis |
| ISBN | 0316558737 |
Set against the backdrop of Detroit in the 1960's and 1970's, the story of the life of a one-of-a-kind matriarch whose business in the Numbers made her daughter's dreams come true.
The World According to Fannie Davis is Bridgett Davis's unforgettable coming of age in a family with a secret....
| Author | Tracey Baptiste |
| ISBN | 1616208910 |
In book three of the popular Jumbies series, Corinne must use her emerging supernatural powers to battle the angry god who would destroy her Caribbean island home.
When an out-of-season hurricane sweeps through Corinne’s seaside village, Corinne knows it’s not a typical storm. At first...
| Author | Kate Hope Day |
| ISBN | 0525511229 |
The residents of a sleepy mountain town are rocked by troubling visions of an alternate reality in this dazzling debut that combines the family-driven suspense of Celeste Ng’s Little Fires Everywhere with the inventive storytelling of The Immortalists.
In the quiet haven of Clearing,...
| Author | Suzanne Rindell |
| ISBN | 0241963745 |
A haunting debut novel set against the background of New York City in the 1920s…
Confessions are Rose Baker’s job. A typist for the New York City Police Department, she sits in judgment like a high priestess. Criminals come before her to admit their transgressions, and, with a few strokes...
| Author | Cathleen Schine |
| ISBN | 0374154902 |
It’s 1964. Eleven-year-old Fin and his glamorous, worldly, older half sister, Lady, have just been orphaned, and Lady, whom Fin hasn’t seen in six years, is now his legal guardian and his only hope. That means Fin is uprooted from a small dairy farm in rural Connecticut to Greenwich Village, smack...
| Author | Ilana Kurshan |
| ISBN | 0646152602 |
At the age of 27, alone in Jerusalem in the wake of a painful divorce, Ilana Kurshan joined the world s largest book club, learning daf yomi, Hebrew for daily page" of the Talmud, a book of rabbinic teachings spanning about 600 years and the basis for all codes of Jewish law. A runner, a reader and a romantic,...
The Valedictorian of Being Dead: The True Story of Dying Ten Times to Live
| Author | Heather B. Armstrong |
| ISBN | 1501197045 |
Armstrong shares her story of living with debilitating depression and the radical treatment she underwent to cure it. For years she controlled her depression with a mixture of prescriptions, but when their effects start fading, Armstrong experiences an 18-month period of deep depression fueled...
Tell Me Everything You Don't Remember: The Stroke That Changed My Life
| Author | Christine Hyung-Oak Lee |
| ISBN | 0062422170 |
A memoir of reinvention after a stroke at age thirty-three.
Christine Hyung-Oak Lee woke up with a headache on the morning of December 31, 2006. By that afternoon, she saw the world—quite literally—upside down. By New Year’s Day, she was unable to form a coherent sentence. And after...
