Chelsea Bieker Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Chelsea Bieker

Congratulations @allierowbottom on the publication of this gorgeous unflinching book ... This hits me like Veronica by Mary Gaitskill did, and I’ve been looking for that next high since. This is it! Get it for everyone this holiday.

Chelsea Bieker

I am obsessively reading this novel today. Everyone should pick up "The Shame" by Makenna Goodman. The language, wow, but also the searing truths. https://t.co/hEYK3Txc0M

Chelsea Bieker

One of the most stunning and heartbreaking books I’ve ever read. The feeling of encountering your heart on the page never not profound. So grateful I took this one on our trip so I could sob on the beach. My kind of good vacation TBH. Thank you for writing this Susie Boyt ❤️

Chelsea Bieker

This was such a beautifully wrought book about families, regret, mother/child relationships, marriage, first love, time passing, and so much more, culminating in a devastating, head spinning ending... An inspiration... Thank you Lindsay. You hath delivered us a masterpiece.

Chelsea Bieker

I read this stunning book in a single day, unable to put it down. It has all Melissa’s trademark humor, shot through with heartbreak, desperation, a tale of survival, grief in its many forms, and a feeling of what the F is gonna happen to this woman?!?!? I loved it. A true original.

Chelsea Bieker

I read Husbandry in one sitting and then read it again right away... I loved it, I can’t recommend it enough. The most beautiful art I’ve encountered in a minute.

Chelsea Bieker

Very Ferrante very Natalia Ginsburg to me, the sort of writing I find to be all consuming, masterful and with a current of subtle suspense. I love a story that opens with a woman standing outside looking in... This one is a favorite of this year so far and one I will return to.

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Chelsea Bieker

The book’s power derives from the steadfast grace and love that the author summons when writing about the greatest of life’s pains: “No one can hurt you the way a mother can. No one can love you the way a mother can.”

Chelsea Bieker

the best books ask us, require us, to sit with and feel our own pain, why that’s so important, and how great, emotionally true fiction is the expressway to that necessary emotional shroud.

Chelsea Bieker

Short stories were always my first love. I feel [the form] lends itself so well to explore these heightened voices that may not be easy to sustain for 300 pages, but are perfect for 20 pages.