Amanda Parrish Morgan Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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author of STROLLER @bloomsburylit teaching @uchicago Graham School, @FairfieldU + @WestportWriters. Incapable of tweeting without typos

Marlena
Julie Buntin
@LauraPAuthor Claire Messud's The Burning Girl, Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping, Loorie Moore's Who Will Run the Frog Hospital, Julie Buntin's Marlena, also really liked (after taking a while to get into it) Cloud Cuckoo Land which has some strands with teenage central characters
Paperback, 2018
$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Story Fest: Crafting Story Theater Scripts
Dianne de Las Casas
I'm so excited to be on a panel as part of Story Fest at the @WestportLibrary this Sept & even more excited about the other writers who will be there. I loved @theferocity's memoir & am reading & loving @IsaacFitzgerald's now. Details/registration here: https://t.co/eKJobQBfq9
Paperback, 2005
$40.00$20.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Cloud Cuckoo Land
Anthony Doerr
@KristinaRTate Dani Shapiro's new book (Signal Fires), Maggie O'Farrell's The Hand that First Held Mine and Hamnet, Anthony Doerr's Cloud Cuckoo Land
Paperback, 2022
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Hamnet
Maggie O'Farrell
@KristinaRTate Dani Shapiro's new book (Signal Fires), Maggie O'Farrell's The Hand that First Held Mine and Hamnet, Anthony Doerr's Cloud Cuckoo Land
Paperback, 2021
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Crane Wife: A Memoir in Essays
Cj Hauser
@vauhinivara I just used CJ Hauser's "The Crane Wife" as an example with my students: https://t.co/UrLW0mJ8SK
Paperback, 2023
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Bittersweet (Oprah's Book Club): How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole
Susan Cain
@JWLevitt I just read Susan Cain's book BITTERSWEET which is about, in some direct and some roundabout ways, a lot of what this tweet is about. Loved the book and highly recommend it.
Paperback, 2023
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks
Patrick Radden Keefe
@TheBookMaven Rogues by Patrick Radden Keefe and Lessons by Ian McEwan
Paperback, 2023
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Flower Children
Maxine Swann
@lynnsstrong I fell in love with Maxine Swann's "Flower Children" when I read it in 1998? 1999? It reminds me of the feral, dark, fairy-tale themes in Lauren Groff's FLORIDA stories but set in a northeast I recognize, long for, love, fear all at once.
Paperback, 2008
$22.00$11.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Fourth Genre: Contemporary Writers Of/On Creative Nonfiction
Robert Root
My @uchicago Graham School class, The Fourth Genre (part of The Writer's Studio) still has a few open spots. Register here! I am so excited about the syllabus featuring nonfiction that spans the memoir-reporting range & breaks rules in the best way: https://t.co/p1mx2klUDw
Paperback, 2011
$139.99$114.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
Mandy
Julie Andrews Edwards
@lsjamison Mandy by Julie Andrews Edwards
Paperback, 2006
$9.99$4.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book