Books like Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions
12 books with a reading profile close to Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions by Valeria Luiselli. Balanced in tone; an easy read.
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The Buddha in the Attic
by Julie Otsuka
history, narrative
Julie Otsuka tells the collective history of "picture brides" who traveled from Japan to San Francisco in the early 1900s.
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2
The Lacuna
history, narrative
The novel follows the life of Harrison Shepherd, a man navigating the political upheaval of mid-twentieth-century Mexico and the United States.
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3
Betty
history, narrative
Set in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains during the mid-twentieth century, the narrative follows Betty Carpenter, one of eight siblings born to a white mother and a Cherokee father.
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The Bastard of Istanbul
by Elif Shafak
history, narrative
Asya Kazancı is a nineteen-year-old Turkish girl in Istanbul, raised in a household of women, with no knowledge of who her father is.
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5
Wandering Stars
by Tommy Orange
history, narrative
Wandering Stars traces a lineage of a Cheyenne family from the 1864 Sand Creek Massacre and the forced assimilation at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School to the present day.
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The Final Revival of Opal & Nev
history, narrative
Set in the early 1970s New York rock scene, this oral history follows the rise and fracturing of an unlikely musical duo.
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7
The Storm We Made
by Vanessa Chan
history, narrative
In 1930s British Malaya, Cecily Alcantara works as a low-level clerk while feeling the sting of colonial hierarchy.
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8
Noticia de un secuestro
history, narrative
Gabriel García Márquez reconstructs the 1990 abductions of ten prominent Colombian citizens by the Extraditables, a group led by Pablo Escobar to pressure the government into banning extradition to the United States.
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9
The Vanishing Half
by Brit Bennett
history, narrative
In the small town of Mallard, Louisiana, the light-skinned Vignes twins, Desiree and Stella, grow up in a community that prizes fair complexions.
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10
Cane River
history, narrative
Lalita Tademy traced her own family history to write this novel, which follows four generations of women of colour in Louisiana's Cane River region, from slavery through Reconstruction.
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Echo
history, narrative
The narrative begins with a fairy tale prologue centered on an enchanted harmonica and a prophecy to save three lost souls.
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12
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
history, narrative
In a rural village in war-torn Chechnya, Akhmed rescues an eight-year-old girl named Havaa after her father is abducted by Russian soldiers.
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