Books like She’s Come Undone
12 books with a reading profile close to She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb. Inward-looking; an easy read.
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1
More Happy Than Not
by Adam Silvera
Also inward-looking · narrative, psychology
In the wake of his father’s suicide, sixteen-year-old Aaron Soto struggles to find happiness in his Bronx housing project.
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2
The Names
Also inward-looking · narrative, psychology
Set against the backdrop of the early twentieth century, Florence Knapp’s historical narrative follows a group of young people navigating the shifting social hierarchies and industrial changes of their era.
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3
Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead
Also inward-looking · narrative, psychology
Gilda is a twenty-something atheist lesbian burdened by intrusive thoughts about mortality and a paralyzing inability to say no.
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4
We Are Water
by Wally Lamb
Also inward-looking · narrative, psychology
Annie Oh, a Connecticut artist, leaves her husband of twenty-seven years for her art dealer, Viveca, a woman, and announces their wedding.
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5
Stay with Me
Also inward-looking · narrative, psychology
In 1980s Nigeria, Yejide and Akin navigate a marriage defined by their mutual decision to reject polygamy.
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6
Vom Ende der Einsamkeit
Also inward-looking · 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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7
A Place for Us
Also inward-looking · narrative, psychology
In California, an Indian-American Muslim family reunites for a wedding, marking the return of the estranged youngest son, Amar.
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8
Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock
Also inward-looking · narrative, psychology
Leonard Peacock carries a P-38 Nazi handgun in his backpack on his eighteenth birthday.
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9
Sing You Home
by Jodi Picoult
Also inward-looking · narrative, psychology
Zoe Baxter and her husband, Max, have spent years trying to have a baby, going through hormone treatments, IVF, and miscarriages.
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10
Sorrow and Bliss
by Meg Mason
Also inward-looking · narrative, psychology
Martha Friel is forty years old, her marriage to Patrick is ending, and she has spent most of her adult life navigating a severe, unnamed psychiatric disorder.
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11
Uçurtma Avcısı
Also inward-looking · narrative, psychology
Set in Kabul during the final years of the Afghan monarchy and the subsequent rise of the Taliban, the narrative follows Amir, a privileged boy haunted by his failure to intervene during the assault of his servant and f…
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12
I Know This Much Is True
by Wally Lamb
Also inward-looking · narrative, psychology
Dominick Birdsey spends his life anchored to his identical twin, Thomas, whose paranoid schizophrenia leads to a violent act of self-mutilation in a public library.
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