Books like A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories
12 books with a reading profile close to A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories by Lucia Berlin. Deep, inward-looking, contemplative and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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1
Dear Life
by Alice Munro
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, classic literature
Dear Life is Alice Munro's last collection, with ten stories of rural and small-town Canada.
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A Raisin in the Sun
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, classic literature
Set in Chicago’s South Side during the late 1950s, the play follows the Younger family as they await a ten-thousand-dollar life insurance check following the patriarch's death.
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Johnny Got His Gun
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, classic literature
Joe Bonham, a young American soldier serving in World War I, wakes up in a hospital bed to discover he is a victim of a massive artillery shell explosion.
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, classic literature
Janie Crawford returns to Eatonville, Florida, and recounts her life to her friend Pheoby Watson.
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Tokyo Ueno Station
by Yū Miri
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, classic literature
Kazu is a ghost who haunts the grounds of Tokyo’s Ueno Park, mirroring the era he spent living there as a homeless laborer.
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Cathedral
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, classic literature
Raymond Carver’s collection presents twelve short stories centered on blue-collar domesticity, alcoholism, and isolation in the American Pacific Northwest.
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Stoner
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, classic literature
William Stoner arrives at the University of Missouri in 1910 to study agriculture but shifts his focus to English literature after encountering a Shakespearean sonnet.
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Black Swan Green
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, classic literature
Thirteen-year-old Jason Taylor navigates thirteen months of adolescence in a claustrophobic Worcestershire village during 1982.
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Train Dreams
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, classic literature
Robert Grainier is a day laborer in the American West during the early twentieth century.
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The Bluest Eye
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, classic literature
Set in 1941 Lorain, Ohio, the narrative focuses on Pecola Breedlove, a young Black girl who internalizes the white standards of beauty dominant in her community.
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The Lowland
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, classic literature
Subhash and Udayan are brothers born in Calcutta, separated by temperament and political conviction.
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No One Writes to the Colonel and Other Short Stories
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, classic literature
The title novella follows a retired veteran who visits the post office every Friday, expecting a pension check that never arrives.
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