Books like To søstre
12 books with a reading profile close to To søstre by Åsne Seierstad. Balanced in tone; a moderate read.
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1
The Murmur of Bees
narrative, literary
Set against the backdrop of the Mexican Revolution and the 1918 influenza pandemic, the narrative follows the Morales family in northern Mexico.
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2
ONE DAY, EVERYONE WILL HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AGAINST THIS
analytical, narrative
Omar El Akkad’s collection of essays examines the cognitive dissonance inherent in Western humanitarian responses to global atrocities.
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3
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
analytical, narrative
Jia Tolentino examines the psychological distortion caused by living within systems that prioritize marketability and digital performance.
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4
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
analytical, narrative
This collection of seven essays blends technical reporting with personal anxiety to examine how American mass culture consumes its participants.
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5
Wellness
by Nathan Hill
analytical, narrative
Jack and Elizabeth meet as art students in 1990s Chicago, bonding over an underground lifestyle and the belief that they are escaping their stifling Midwestern upbringings.
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6
Year of Wonders
narrative, literary
In 1665, a tailor in the isolated English village of Eyam receives a parcel of cloth from London infested with plague-carrying fleas.
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The Pull of the Stars
narrative, literary
The story takes place over three days in a cramped, understaffed maternity quarantine ward in Dublin during the 1918 influenza pandemic.
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8
Honor
narrative, literary
Smita, an Indian-American journalist, returns to India to cover the legal battle of Meena, a Hindu woman brutally disfigured by her own family for marrying a Muslim man.
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How the García girls lost their accents
narrative, literary
The narrative follows the four García sisters—Carla, Sandra, Yolanda, and Sofía—as they flee the Trujillo dictatorship in the Dominican Republic to settle in New York City.
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10
The Red Garden
narrative, literary
Blackwell, Massachusetts, is a small town in the Berkshires founded in the 1750s by settlers who endure a brutal first winter.
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News of the World
narrative, literary
In 1870, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels across North Texas, reading international newspapers to paying audiences in small towns.
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People of the Book
narrative, literary
Hanna Heath, an Australian rare book conservator, travels to Sarajevo in 1996 to restore the Sarajevo Haggadah, a fourteenth-century Hebrew manuscript.
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