Books like Torto Arado
12 books with a reading profile close to Torto Arado by Itamar Vieira Junior. Thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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March
Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary
This novel reimagines the American Civil War from the perspective of John March, the absent father from Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women.
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Salvage the Bones
by Jesmyn Ward
Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Set in the humid landscape of Bois Sauvage, Mississippi, the narrative follows fifteen-year-old Esch and her three brothers during the twelve days leading up to Hurricane Katrina.
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Arcadia
by Lauren Groff
Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Bit Arcadia is born in a commune in upstate New York in the 1970s, the first child born there.
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Strange Pilgrims: Twelve Stories
Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary
These twelve stories, written over eighteen years, are about Latin Americans who find themselves in Europe, mainly in Barcelona, Rome, Geneva and Paris.
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Stone Mattress: Nine Tales
Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Margaret Atwood's 2014 collection gathers nine stories about aging, grudges and the lingering consequences of old choices.
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Clear
by Carys Davies
Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Set in 1843 during the final stages of the Highland Clearances, the story follows John Ferguson, an impoverished minister sent to a remote Shetland island to evict its last remaining inhabitant.
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Saturday
by Ian McEwan
Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Henry Perowne, a successful neurosurgeon, navigates a single day in London during the massive 2003 protests against the Iraq War.
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How the García girls lost their accents
Also thought-provoking · 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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Flight Behavior
Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Dellarobia Turnbow, a restless farm wife in rural Tennessee, discovers a valley filled with millions of monarch butterflies that have deviated from their typical migration path to Mexico.
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The Master Butchers Singing Club
Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Fidelis Waldvogel returns to Germany from the First World War with a sniper's skill and a plan to become a butcher like his father.
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11
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Sherman Alexie's linked stories follow Native American characters on and around the Spokane Indian Reservation in Washington State.
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Brick Lane
by Monica Ali
Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Nazneen is seventeen when she leaves a village in Bangladesh for an arranged marriage to Chanu, a man more than twenty years older, in a London housing estate in Tower Hamlets.
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