17 Best novels books like Mouth to Mouth by Antoine Wilson

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Similar categories in Hernan Diaz's Trust book and Antoine Wilson's Mouth to Mouth

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"Where there's a ventriloquist, there's a dummy."

-Hernan Diaz, Trust

"Chaos is a vortex that spins faster with each thing it swallows."

-Hernan Diaz, Trust

"Silence between 2 is always shared. But 1 of the 2 owns it and shares it with the other."

-Hernan Diaz, Trust

"Sleeplessness kept claiming her nights, and she used books as shields against the onslaught of her abstract terrors."

-Hernan Diaz, Trust

Similar categories in Percival Everett's James book and Antoine Wilson's Mouth to Mouth

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Similar categories in Miranda July's All Fours book and Antoine Wilson's Mouth to Mouth

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"But maybe the road split between: a life spent longing vs. a life that was continually surprising"

-Miranda July, All Fours

"Maybe we shouldn't do that," Jordi said. "Flatten ourselves like that. Erratic doesn't have to mean crazy or irresponsible. Shouldn't we be normalizing change?"

-Miranda July, All Fours

"I guess any calling, no mater what it is, is a kind of unresolved ache," I said, giving in to knowing more than him. "It's a problem that you can't fix, but there is some relief in knowing you will c…"

-Miranda July, All Fours

"For me lying created just the right amount of problems and what you saw was just one of my four or five faces- each real, each with different needs. The only dangerous lie was one that asked me to co…"

-Miranda July, All Fours

Similar categories in Lydia Millet's Dinosaurs book and Antoine Wilson's Mouth to Mouth

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"They say those who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones, but don’t we all?"

-Lydia Millet, Dinosaurs

"You gotta be a generalist, in the new climate. But that’s not enough either. If there’s too much poison around. We’re talking pesticides, mostly. Agrochemicals everywhere. Take the sparrows. So anywa…"

-Lydia Millet, Dinosaurs

"Good news. Maybe the insects would handle it. Since the dinosaurs didn’t have it in them. The insects might be naturals at revolution, with their hive minds. Their brainless, decentralized intelligen…"

-Lydia Millet, Dinosaurs

"And freedom, that sacred cow that was always invoked as an excuse for bad behavior, all manner of atrocity—what was it, even? They told you to love it, in the schools and the songs, but never said wh…"

-Lydia Millet, Dinosaurs

Similar categories in Emma Cline's The Guest book and Antoine Wilson's Mouth to Mouth

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"Younger men had to make everything mean something, had to turn every choice and preference into a referendum on their personality."

-Emma Cline, The Guest

"He assumed her attention when he spoke. He had his insecurities, his anxieties. But underlying it all was the certainty that the world would be generous in its orientation toward him."

-Emma Cline, The Guest

"All the women in the show hated each other, hated each other so much, just so they could avoid hating their husbands. Only their little dogs, blinking from their laps, seemed real: they were the wome…"

-Emma Cline, The Guest

Similar categories in Daniel Mason's North Woods book and Antoine Wilson's Mouth to Mouth

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Similar categories in Eleanor Catton's Birnam Wood book and Antoine Wilson's Mouth to Mouth

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"...wondering, not for the first time, when exactly she had become so technologically dependent that her first instinct in every unpredicted circumstance was to outsource her imagination to her phone."

-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood

"Not at all,’ he said. ‘I was just going to remark that being a cliche can be very useful. You ought to consider it some time.’ ’Oh yeah?’ ’Yeah,’ he said. ‘It means people underestimate you. They thi…"

-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood

"As his rhetoric and reading life matured, he grew intensely scornful of what passed at his high school for 'education' - the mania for testing; the intolerance of real dissent; and the conformist cel…"

-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood

"... his future, had either been sold or laid to waste by his parents' generation, trapping him in a perpetual adolescence that was further heightened by the infantilising unreality of the Internet as…"

-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood

Similar categories in Kiley Reid's Come and Get It book and Antoine Wilson's Mouth to Mouth

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"Kennedy hadn't considered it before, that to write something beautiful you just do it regular, and then you pull out a red pen."

-Kiley Reid, Come and Get It

"Washing her sheets was another thing she'd failed to do. She washed her clothes—every weekend—but when it came to the bedsheets, she'd get stressed out or she'd forget. And then there was too much ti…"

-Kiley Reid, Come and Get It

"Okay, sometimes—just being honest— Millie can be . . . a little ghetto." On the word little, Tyler held two fingers an inch apart. "Nooo. Don't say that. Ah love Millie." "But I'm not saying it like …"

-Kiley Reid, Come and Get It

Similar categories in Xóchitl González's Olga Dies Dreaming book and Antoine Wilson's Mouth to Mouth

• literary fiction
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"It's a myth about motherhood, Olga felt, that the time in utero imbues mothers with a lifelong understanding of their children. Yes, they know their essences, this she didn't doubt, but mothers are s…"

-Xóchitl González, Olga Dies Dreaming

Similar categories in Tess Gunty's The Rabbit Hutch book and Antoine Wilson's Mouth to Mouth

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"On the opposite end of the sidewalk, a large woman in her sixties collapsed. Immediately, two people rushed to the woman's side, gingerly tending to her, touching her shoulders and face, speaking to …"

-Tess Gunty, The Rabbit Hutch

"· Las calles por las que caminas, el alimento que comes, el trabajo que haces, el medio de transporte que eliges, los productos de belleza que compras, los programas que ves, los enlaces en los que p…"

-Tess Gunty, The Rabbit Hutch

"Acaba de ponerse a llover. Estamos encantados de que se quede un rato más, si quiere. Milagroso. Joan recuerda que existen los perros, las tiendas de manualidades, los analgésicos, las bibliotecas pú…"

-Tess Gunty, The Rabbit Hutch

"—Estoy harta —dice Blandine— de la violencia contra las mujeres disfrazada de validación. —Lo siento —murmura James de manera automática, pero tiene el gesto de la mascota reprendida que no sabe qué …"

-Tess Gunty, The Rabbit Hutch

Similar categories in Nathan Hill's Wellness book and Antoine Wilson's Mouth to Mouth

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"It's an altogether manic and ceaseless conversation, a conversation that feels sometimes like falling down stairs, barely keeping upright, taken by gravity, skipping, grasping, and then somehow landi…"

-Nathan Hill, Wellness

"Behind curtains, this, he thinks, is what lovers do—they are alchemists and architects; pioneers and fabulists; they make one thing another; they invent the world around them. So he says, ‘Yes I beli…"

-Nathan Hill, Wellness

Similar categories in Jennifer Egan's The Candy House book and Antoine Wilson's Mouth to Mouth

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"A new remote and unfamiliar place can make the prior remote and unfamiliar place seem like home."

-Jennifer Egan, The Candy House

"Mysteries that are destroyed by measurement were never truly mysterious; only our ignorance made them seem so."

-Jennifer Egan, The Candy House

"Nothing is free! Only children expect otherwise even as myths and fairy tales warn us: Rumpelstiltskin, King Midas, Handsel and Gretel. Never trust a candy house! It was only a matter of time before …"

-Jennifer Egan, The Candy House

Similar categories in Rebecca Makkai's I Have Some Questions for You book and Antoine Wilson's Mouth to Mouth

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Similar categories in Yiyun Li's The Book of Goose book and Antoine Wilson's Mouth to Mouth

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"Time corrupts. And we pay a price for everything corruptible: food, roof beams, souls."

-Yiyun Li, The Book of Goose

"Few of us would make a fool of ourselves in pressing the animals to give us serious answers about their lives, but we do that all the time to other people."

-Yiyun Li, The Book of Goose

"Happiness, I would tell her, is to spend every day without craning one's neck to look forward to tomorrow, next month, next year, and without holding out one's hands to stop every day from becoming y…"

-Yiyun Li, The Book of Goose

"Childhood companionship is forced upon the children (...) Childhood friendship, though is has ti meet the same geographical and temporal prerequisites, is something rarer: a child does not seek to bo…"

-Yiyun Li, The Book of Goose

Similar categories in Anthony Marra's Mercury Pictures Presents book and Antoine Wilson's Mouth to Mouth

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"Being broken delicately is what I call being whole."

-Anthony Marra, Mercury Pictures Presents

"Your father is the worst thing that's ever happened to me," her mother said. "He also happens to be the love of my life."

-Anthony Marra, Mercury Pictures Presents

"Artie had named the canary Charles Lindbergh, on account of it being an excellent aviator but otherwise a real piece of work."

-Anthony Marra, Mercury Pictures Presents

"Vincenzo told him he was naïve, but was it naïve to believe documentary photography could serve as an antidote to the propaganda poisoning the body politic?"

-Anthony Marra, Mercury Pictures Presents

Similar categories in Kevin Wilson's Now Is Not the Time to Panic book and Antoine Wilson's Mouth to Mouth

• art
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"I wondered if this was a sign that, whatever happened this summer, I'd be the one with a scar."

-Kevin Wilson, Now Is Not the Time to Panic

"To be a teenager, it takes very little to think that someone else might actually know who you are, even as you spend all your time thinking that no one understands you. It's such a lovely feeling."

-Kevin Wilson, Now Is Not the Time to Panic

"I want to be an artist," he told me, like we were both admitting that we weren't human. We didn't understand how normal this was, to be young, to believe that you were destined to make beautiful thin…"

-Kevin Wilson, Now Is Not the Time to Panic

"You want to put up posters in Graceland?" I asked. I thought that if there was one place in the entire world where devotees would kill you for desecrating the sanctity of a holy space, it would be th…"

-Kevin Wilson, Now Is Not the Time to Panic

Similar categories in Antoine Wilson's Mouth to Mouth book and Antoine Wilson's Mouth to Mouth

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"A relationship needs its games. If there is no sense of play, there is only desperation, the fear of being alone."

-Antoine Wilson, Mouth to Mouth

"Frances had pegged Jeff as a computer whiz and Jeff did little to disabuse him of that notion. His newly acquired knowledge of Microsoft Excel had catapulted him to database wizard status and he went…"

-Antoine Wilson, Mouth to Mouth

Similar categories in Ken Kalfus's 2 A.M. in Little America book and Antoine Wilson's Mouth to Mouth

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Similar categories in Taffy Brodesser-Akner's Long Island Compromise book and Antoine Wilson's Mouth to Mouth

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Similar categories in John Elizabeth Stintzi's My Volcano book and Antoine Wilson's Mouth to Mouth

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• fiction

"His Farsi laden with a mat of nostalgia"

-John Elizabeth Stintzi, My Volcano

"And so here - after then, and after that - we are"

-John Elizabeth Stintzi, My Volcano

"In his little apartment, alone, Ash set his cocktail of alarms"

-John Elizabeth Stintzi, My Volcano

"On that page, they began to write a new book - a book without research. A book about a mountain. A volcano . Their volcano."

-John Elizabeth Stintzi, My Volcano

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