Books like Push
12 books with a reading profile close to Push by Sapphire. Inward-looking and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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1
This Is How You Lose Her
by Junot Díaz
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, psychology
Yunior is a Dominican-American man who struggles with chronic infidelity and the emotional fallout of his choices.
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2
Wintergirls
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, psychology
Lia Overbrook is an eighteen-year-old girl struggling with anorexia and self-harm following the death of her former best friend, Cassie.
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3
The Woman Upstairs
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, psychology
Nora Eldridge is a schoolteacher in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in her forties, once an aspiring artist, who has been living a careful, respectable life.
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4
Purple Hibiscus
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, psychology
Fifteen-year-old Kambili Achike lives in Enugu, Nigeria, under the rigid authority of her father, Eugene, a charismatic businessman and devout Catholic.
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5
Stay with Me
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, psychology
In 1980s Nigeria, Yejide and Akin navigate a marriage defined by their mutual decision to reject polygamy.
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6
Real Life
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, psychology
Wallace, a Black queer doctoral student from Alabama, navigates a tense weekend at a predominantly white Midwestern university.
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7
Vom Ende der Einsamkeit
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, psychology
Jules Moreau and his two siblings, Marty and Liz, grow up in a protected household until a car accident kills both of their parents.
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8
Still Born
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, psychology
In Mexico City, Laura and her close friend Alina reach their thirties with a shared resolve to remain childless.
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9
Little Altars Everywhere
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, psychology
Siddalee Walker is a successful theater director in Seattle who must reconcile with her difficult mother Vivi, one of the Ya-Yas, a group of Louisiana women who have been friends since childhood.
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10
The Prince of Tides
by Pat Conroy
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, psychology
Tom Wingo, an unemployed teacher from the South Carolina lowcountry, travels to New York City after his twin sister, Savannah, attempts suicide.
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11
White Oleander
by Janet Fitch
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, psychology
Astrid Magnussen is a young teenager living in Los Angeles whose life fractures when her mother, the poet Ingrid, murders a former lover with the poison of white oleander flowers.
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12
Did You Ever Have a Family
by Bill Clegg
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, psychology
On the night before her daughter Lolly's wedding, June Reid's house burns down, killing her daughter, Lolly's fiancé Will, her ex-husband Luke and her boyfriend Adam.
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