Wheat that Springeth Green

7 best books like Wheat that Springeth Green (J.F. Powers): Frankissstein: A Love Story, The Need, Nothing to See Here, Olive, Again, I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution, Right After the Weather, Find Me

Frankissstein: A Love Story
AuthorJeanette Winterson
ISBN1473563259
From 'one of the most gifted writers working today' (New York Times) comes an audacious new novel about the bodies we live in and the bodies we desire

In Brexit Britain, a young transgender doctor called Ry is falling in love – against their better judgement – with Victor Stein, a celebrated...
The Need
AuthorHelen Phillips
ISBN1982113162
When Molly, home alone with her two young children, hears footsteps in the living room, she tries to convince herself it’s the sleep deprivation. She’s been hearing things these days. Startling at loud noises. Imagining the worst-case scenario. It’s what mothers do, she knows.

But...
Nothing to See Here
AuthorKevin Wilson
ISBN0062913484
Kevin Wilson’s best book yet—a moving and uproarious novel about a woman who finds meaning in her life when she begins caring for two children with remarkable and disturbing abilities

Lillian and Madison were unlikely roommates and yet inseparable friends at their elite boarding school....
Olive, Again
AuthorElizabeth Strout
ISBN0812996542
The iconic Olive struggles to understand not only herself and her own life but also the lives of those around her in the town of Crosby, Maine. Whether with a teenager coming to terms with the loss of her father, a young woman about to give birth during a hilariously inopportune moment, a nurse who confesses...
I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution
AuthorEmily Nussbaum
ISBN0525508961
From The New Yorker’s fiercely original, Pulitzer Prize–winning culture critic, a provocative collection of new and previously published essays arguing that we are what we watch.

From her creation of the first “Approval Matrix” in New York magazine in 2004 to her Pulitzer Prize–winning...
Right After the Weather
AuthorCarol Anshaw
ISBN1476747792
“This timely novel takes on friendship, desire, fear, and vulnerability in one incisive, witty, and powerful package.” —People

“Astonishes with the force of its unexpected beauty.” —The New York Times Book Review

The author of the “graceful and compassionate”...
Find Me
AuthorAndré Aciman
ISBN0374155011
In this spellbinding exploration of the varieties of love, the author of the worldwide bestseller Call Me by Your Name revisits its complex and beguiling characters decades after their first meeting.

No novel in recent memory has spoken more movingly to contemporary readers about the nature...
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