noraborealis Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Matilda
Roald Dahl
Few people can write childhood, with all its terror and tumult, like Roald Dahl, and he does so while making even a hopeless situation outrageously funny.
Paperback, 2007
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Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
Carson McCullers
I pulled this novel off my parents' shelf in the summer after fifth grade and was immediately enchanted with the world Carson McCullers created in 1930s Georgia — and all the lonely, longing people within it.
Paperback, 2004
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The Things They Carried
Tim O'Brien
O'Brien's sometimes gruesome and always devastating interconnected stories about young men in combat helped me to see my own father, a Vietnam veteran, for what he was: a traumatized man carrying the weight of a war he fought when he was just a boy.
Paperback, 2009
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There Will Be No Miracles Here: A Memoir
Casey Gerald
Americans love a rags-to-riches... But Texas native Casey Gerald, who could recount such a story, instead tells the truth about his struggles with faith, class, race, and sexual identity. His prose is witty, insightful, and razor-sharp. Not a word is wasted.
Paperback, 2019
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Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
David Sedaris
David Sedaris... [was] the first writer to ever make me howl with laughter. In this book, he writes about his childhood and his relationships with his adult siblings. As always, the essays read like stories told by a close friend
Paperback, 2005
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Nothing to See Here
Kevin Wilson
I knew nothing about this book before I cracked it open, and I don't want to spoil the delight for anyone else... The premise is wacky, but the writing: It's so funny and delightful and tender that even the unrealistic feels absolutely real.
Paperback, 2020
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