Books like Skim
12 books with a reading profile close to Skim by Mariko Tamaki. Inward-looking, contemplative and thought-provoking; an easy read.
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Foster
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, accessible
Set in rural Ireland during the early 1980s, the story follows a young girl sent to live with distant relatives, the Kinsellas, while her mother awaits the birth of another child.
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Please Look After Mom
by Kyung-Sook Shin, Chi-Young Kim
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, accessible
Sixty-nine-year-old Park So-nyo disappears in a crowded Seoul subway station after losing her husband’s hand in the rush.
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American Born Chinese
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, accessible
Gene Luen Yang weaves together three distinct narrative threads to examine the internal conflicts of cultural assimilation.
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Long Way Down
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, accessible
Fifteen-year-old Will Holloman sits in an elevator with a gun tucked into his waistband, intending to kill the man who shot his brother, Shawn.
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The Magician's Assistant
by Ann Patchett
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, accessible
Sabine, a magician's assistant, has spent twenty years working with Parsifal, a gay magician, and living with him in Los Angeles.
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The Berry Pickers
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, accessible
In 1962, a four-year-old Mi’kmaq girl named Ruthie vanishes from a blueberry field in Maine while her family works the harvest.
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Detransition, Baby
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, accessible
The story centers on Reese, a trans woman in New York whose life is stalled by self-destruction and a lack of traditional domestic paths.
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Commonwealth
by Ann Patchett
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, accessible
The story begins at a 1960s christening party in Southern California, where a chance kiss between Bert Cousins and Beverly Keating leads to the dissolution of two marriages.
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Writers & Lovers
by Lily King
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Set in 1997 Massachusetts, the narrative follows Casey Peabody, a thirty-one-year-old waitress mourning her mother’s sudden death while struggling to finish a novel she has worked on for six years.
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Prep
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, accessible
Lee Fiora, a girl from a modest family in Indiana, wins a scholarship to the Ault School, a prestigious boarding school in Massachusetts.
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The Spectacular Now
by Tim Tharp
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, accessible
Sutter Keely is a high school senior in a small Oklahoma town who lives for parties and drinking and thinks of himself as the life of every gathering.
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This One Summer
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Rose and Wind are childhood friends who reunite every July at a lakeside cabin in Awago Beach.
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