Books like The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster
12 books with a reading profile close to The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster by Sarah Krasnostein. Inward-looking and contemplative; a moderate read.
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Every Note Played
by Lisa Genova
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, literary
Richard Seligman is a world-class concert pianist whose career ends abruptly when he is diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS).
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Uçurtma Avcısı
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, literary
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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Purple Hibiscus
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, literary
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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Little Altars Everywhere
Also inward-looking · narrative, literary
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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The Prince of Tides
by Pat Conroy
Also inward-looking · narrative, literary
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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I Know This Much Is True
by Wally Lamb
Also inward-looking · narrative, literary
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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Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
by Barack Obama
Also inward-looking and contemplative · biography, narrative
Barack Obama reconstructs his personal history and identity as a biracial man in America through a narrative that spans Honolulu, Chicago, and Kenya.
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Stay with Me
Also inward-looking · narrative, literary
In 1980s Nigeria, Yejide and Akin navigate a marriage defined by their mutual decision to reject polygamy.
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Vom Ende der Einsamkeit
Also inward-looking · narrative, literary
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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Shuggie Bain
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, literary
Set in 1980s Glasgow, the narrative follows young Shuggie Bain as he grows up in public housing schemes shaped by deindustrialization and poverty.
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Goodbye, Vitamin
by Rachel Khong
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, literary
Ruth, thirty years old, has lost her fiancé and her job, and she goes home to California to help care for her father Howard, a retired history professor with Alzheimer's.
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The Names
Also inward-looking · narrative, literary
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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