If you liked the short stories plot in Lawns by Mona Simpson , here is a list of 14 books like this:
1. We the Animals
By: Justin Torres
3.72
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
In this award-winning, groundbreaking debut, Justin Torres plunges us into the chaotic heart of one… read more
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- literary fiction
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
"We hit and we kept on hitting; we were allowed to be what we were, frightened and vengeful — little animals, clawing at what we needed."-Justin Torres, We the Animals
"This is your heritage,' he said, as if from this dance we could know about his own childhood, about the flavor and grit of tenement buildings in Spanish Harlem, and projects in Red Hook, and dance ha…"-Justin Torres, We the Animals
"Always more, always hungrily scratching for more. But there were times, quiet moments, when our mother was sleeping, when she hadn’t slept in two days, and any noise, any stair creak, any shut door, …"-Justin Torres, We the Animals
2. Sonny's Blues
By: James Baldwin
4.30
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Part of the Penguin 60s series, issued to celebrate 60 years of Penguin books. This collects "Sonny… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
"It's the only light we've got in all this darkness"-James Baldwin, Sonny's Blues
"All that hatred down there," he said, "all that hatred and misery and love. It's a wonder it doesn't blow the avenue apart."-James Baldwin, Sonny's Blues
"You don't know how much I needed to hear from you. I wanted to write you many a time but I dug how much I must have hurt you and so I didn't write. But now I feel like a man who's been trying to clim…"-James Baldwin, Sonny's Blues
"I had never before thought of how awful the relationship must be between the musician and his instrument. He has to fill it, this instrument, with the breath of life, his own. He has to make it do wh…"-James Baldwin, Sonny's Blues
3. The School
By: Donald Barthelme , Steven Polansky
3.79
Format: 128 pages,
When I knew him, Barthelme was in his early forties. He died in 1989, at the age of 58. "The School… read more
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- literary fiction
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
4. Harmony of the World: Stories
By: Charles Baxter
3.76
Format: 6 pages, Paperback
In these ten stories, Charles Baxter shows his genius in making his characters' everyday sufferings… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
5. Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?: Selected Early Stories
By: Joyce Carol Oates
3.69
Format: 88 pages, Hardcover
The sixties and seventies witnessed the emergence of Joyce Carol Oates as one of America's foremost… read more
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- short stories
- contemporary
6. Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?
By: Raymond Carver
3.74
Format: 70 pages, Paperback
With this, his first collection, Carver breathed new life into the short story. In the pared-down s… read more
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7. Blackbird
By: David Harrower
4.29
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Fifteen years ago Una and Ray had a relationship. They haven't set eyes on each other since. Now, y… read more
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8. Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs
By: Jamie Loftus
3.92
Format: 301 pages, Hardcover
Part travelogue, part culinary history, all capitalist critique―comedian Jamie Loftus's debut, Raw … read more
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"WE NEED MORE WOMEN PRIESTS! a billboard declares a few miles outside of Buffalo, a new cursed addition to a folder in my Google Drive called 'feminism except not really."-Jamie Loftus, Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs
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- short stories
10. My Dark Vanessa
By: Kate Elizabeth Russell
4.10
Format: 373 pages, Hardcover
Exploring the psychological dynamics of the relationship between a precocious yet naïve teenage gir… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"To be groomed is to be loved and handled like a precious, delicate thing"-Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa
"I don’t feel forced, and I know I have the power to say no, but that isn’t the same as being in charge."-Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa
"He's always going to be old. He has to be. That's the only way I can stay young and dripping with beauty."-Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa
"I think we're very similar, Nessa," he whispers. "From the way you write, I can tell you're a dark romantic like me. You like dark things."-Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa
11. Sabrina & Corina
By: Kali Fajardo-Anstine
4.20
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A haunting debut story collection on friendship, mothers and daughters, and the deep-rooted truths … read more
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- literary fiction
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
"Age has nothing to do with sadness."-Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Sabrina & Corina
"And that is our story of everything."-Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Sabrina & Corina
"That poor girl. How the world just ate her up."-Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Sabrina & Corina
"Thanks, but we'll try some home remedies first."-Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Sabrina & Corina
12. Postcolonial Love Poem
By: Natalie Díaz
4.33
Format: 107 pages, Paperback
Natalie Diaz’s highly anticipated follow-up to When My Brother Was an Aztec, winner of an American … read more
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"Unsoothable thirst is one kind of haunting"-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
"In Mojave, our words for want and need are the same – because why would you want what you don’t need?"-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
"Maybe death is a way to clean the self, of the body, to finally celebrate it. A celebration should leave a mess."-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
"At the National Museum of the American Indian, 68 percent of the collection is from the United States. I am doing my best to not become a museum of myself. I am doing my best to breathe in and out."-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
13. Being Lolita: A Memoir
By: Alisson Wood
4.20
Format: 291 pages, Kindle Edition
AS FEATURED IN THE HULU DOCUMENTARY KEEP THIS BETWEEN USA dark relationship evolves between a high … read more
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- contemporary
"Yes, "Lolita" is beautiful. But yes, it's also terrible. We can hold both in our hands."-Alisson Wood, Being Lolita: A Memoir
"I wonder about things like fate, how sometimes things are just chosen for you, how women are chosen to endure suffering."-Alisson Wood, Being Lolita: A Memoir
"That moment in my body when the teacher put his hand on my knee to comfort me was the understanding of all of that--that in order to be attractive, irresistible, to be worthy of notice, was to be bot…"-Alisson Wood, Being Lolita: A Memoir
"He leaned down to my foot next to him and put his lips on my pink, swollen ankle. I felt his breath on my skin. And it was like every locked in the halls of my high school swung open at once, metal k…"-Alisson Wood, Being Lolita: A Memoir
14. Supper Club
By: Lara Williams
3.46
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
A sharply intelligent and intimate debut novel about a secret society of hungry young women who mee… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"I want to go home, I thought. I just want to go home. But I couldn’t attribute this feeling to any place I knew of."-Lara Williams, Supper Club
"Once unpacked, I saw my family downstairs. Each step released something spidery inside me: the sick-making terror of need."-Lara Williams, Supper Club
"I felt the weight of myself press into the carpet. I thought about how I was carrying only that weight, how I was responsible for no weight other than my own. All I had to carry through life was myse…"-Lara Williams, Supper Club
"But we never really connected; standing side by side like soldiers, we were just marching through. It was sort of understood we wouldn’t stay in touch beyond the last summer of school. We were stand-…"-Lara Williams, Supper Club
15. Helping
By: Robert Stone
3.70
Format: 40 pages, Hardcover
Limited edition of this short story, one of only 100 copies signed by Stone, hand set in Centaur ty… read more
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- short stories
"My optimism? Where I grew up our principal cultural expression was the funeral. Whatever keeps me going, it isn't optimism."-Robert Stone, Helping
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- short stories
- fiction
17. The Conventional Wisdom
By: Stanley Elkin
3.54
Format: 24 pages, None
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- short stories
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- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
19. Hills Like White Elephants
By: Ernest Hemingway
3.85
Format: 6 pages, Kindle Edition
A conversation in a Spanish cafe between a man and a woman that is not as simple as it seems. Hi… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
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- short stories
21. Communist
By: Richard Ford
3.12
Format: 28 pages, Paperback
Limited to 240 numbered copies, this being one of 180 bound thus and signed by the author.Title pag… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
