Books like I Feel Bad About My Neck and Other Thoughts on Being a Woman
12 books with a reading profile close to I Feel Bad About My Neck and Other Thoughts on Being a Woman by Nora Ephron. Inward-looking and clear-cut; an easy read.
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Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table
by Ruth Reichl
Also clear-cut · memoir, narrative
Ruth Reichl’s memoir tracks her development from a child navigating her mother’s dangerous kitchen to a professional restaurant critic.
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Beautiful Country
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · memoir, narrative
Qian Julie Wang was seven when she and her parents left China for New York in 1994, where her mother and father, a former professor and a professional, became undocumented workers.
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Also inward-looking · memoir, narrative
Fourteen-year-old Arnold Spirit Jr., a budding cartoonist born with physical vulnerabilities, lives on the Spokane Indian Reservation where poverty and alcoholism are pervasive.
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The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories
Also inward-looking · memoir, narrative
The collection compiles fiction and non-fiction written by Marina Keegan before her death just days after graduating from Yale.
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Solutions and Other Problems
by Allie Brosh
Also inward-looking · memoir, narrative
Allie Brosh uses crude digital illustrations and humorous vignettes to document her life after a long public absence.
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Far from the Tree
by Robin Benway
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · narrative, accessible
Grace, an only child who recently placed her own baby for adoption, discovers she is a middle child.
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Pictures of Hollis Woods
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · narrative, accessible
Hollis Woods is a twelve-year-old girl who has been moved from one foster home to another and has run away from many.
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The Authenticity Project
by Clare Pooley
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · narrative, accessible
Julian Jessop is an elderly artist and widower in London, who is so lonely that he writes the truth about his life in a green notebook and leaves it in his local cafe.
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Saving Francesca
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · narrative, accessible
Francesca Cassarini begins her sophomore year at St.
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Kira-Kira
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · narrative, accessible
Katie Takeshima is a Japanese-American girl who grows up in Georgia in the 1950s, and her older sister Lynn teaches her the word "kira-kira," meaning glittering, as a way of seeing the world.
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The One-in-a-Million Boy
by Monica Wood
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · narrative, accessible
Ona Vitkus is a 104-year-old woman who agrees to let eleven-year-old Quentin, a Boy Scout looking for a service project, visit her on Saturdays to help with chores and chat.
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