Books like Animal Dreams Cloth Signed
12 books with a reading profile close to Animal Dreams Cloth Signed by Barbara Kingsolver. Inward-looking and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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The Poet X
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · personal growth, narrative
Xiomara Batista is a teenager in Harlem who navigates the strict religious dictates of her Mami and the physical unwanted attention her body attracts.
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March
Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary
This novel reimagines the American Civil War from the perspective of John March, the absent father from Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women.
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Inseparable
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
This autobiographical novel tracks the intense friendship between Sylvie and Andrée, fictionalized versions of Simone de Beauvoir and Elisabeth "Zaza" Lacoin.
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Animal Dreams
Also inward-looking · narrative, literary
Codi Noline returns to her rural Arizona hometown to care for her father, a doctor descending into Alzheimer’s disease.
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Salvage the Bones
by Jesmyn Ward
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Set in the humid landscape of Bois Sauvage, Mississippi, the narrative follows fifteen-year-old Esch and her three brothers during the twelve days leading up to Hurricane Katrina.
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Stone Mattress: Nine Tales
Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Margaret Atwood's 2014 collection gathers nine stories about aging, grudges and the lingering consequences of old choices.
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How the García girls lost their accents
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
The narrative follows the four García sisters—Carla, Sandra, Yolanda, and Sofía—as they flee the Trujillo dictatorship in the Dominican Republic to settle in New York City.
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Brick Lane
by Monica Ali
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Nazneen is seventeen when she leaves a village in Bangladesh for an arranged marriage to Chanu, a man more than twenty years older, in a London housing estate in Tower Hamlets.
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One Two Three
Also inward-looking · narrative, literary
In the small town of Bourne, the Mitchell triplets—Mab, Monday, and Mirabel—navigate lives shaped by a legacy of environmental poisoning.
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The Master Butchers Singing Club
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Fidelis Waldvogel returns to Germany from the First World War with a sniper's skill and a plan to become a butcher like his father.
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Flight Behavior
Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Dellarobia Turnbow, a restless farm wife in rural Tennessee, discovers a valley filled with millions of monarch butterflies that have deviated from their typical migration path to Mexico.
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