7 must-read biography books like Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets by Kyo Maclear

Cover of Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets by Kyo Maclear

Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets

By: Kyo Maclear

3.86

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

An unforgettable memoir about a family secret revealed by a DNA test, the lessons learned in its af…

"A mother enters a story. But how does she enter? How does she walk across the pages of a book?"

-Kyo Maclear, Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets

"A mother enters a story. But how does she enter? How does she walk across the pages of a book?"

-Kyo Maclear, Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets

"What is grief, if not the act of persisting and reconstituting oneself? What is its difficulty, if not the pressure to appear, once more, fully formed?"

-Kyo Maclear, Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets

"What is grief, if not the act of persisting and reconstituting oneself? What is its difficulty, if not the pressure to appear, once more, fully formed?"

-Kyo Maclear, Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets

If you liked the biography plot in Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets by Kyo Maclear , here is a list of 7 books like this:

Cover of The Adversary by Michael Crummey

1. The Adversary

By: Michael Crummey

3.85

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning, critically acclaimed author of The Innocents (“Extraordinary”— Wall Street … read more

Similar categories in Michael Crummey's The Adversary book and Kyo Maclear's Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets

  • canada
  • audiobook
Cover of Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2) by Waubgeshig Rice

2. Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2)

By: Waubgeshig Rice

4.28

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In this gripping sequel to the award-winning post-apocalyptic novel Moon of the Crusted Snow , a br… read more

Similar categories in Waubgeshig Rice's Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2) book and Kyo Maclear's Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets

  • canada
  • audiobook
Cover of Chrysalis by Anuja  Varghese

3. Chrysalis

By: Anuja Varghese

3.96

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Winner of the Canadian Governor General's Literary for Fiction Genre-blending stories of transfo… read more

Similar categories in Anuja Varghese's Chrysalis book and Kyo Maclear's Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets

  • canada
  • audiobook
Cover of Superfan: How Pop Culture Broke My Heart by Jen Sookfong Lee

4. Superfan: How Pop Culture Broke My Heart

By: Jen Sookfong Lee

3.91

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

A sharply observed memoir in pieces that uses one woman's life-long love affair with pop culture as… read more

Similar categories in Jen Sookfong Lee's Superfan: How Pop Culture Broke My Heart book and Kyo Maclear's Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets

  • biography
  • memoir
  • canada
  • nonfiction
  • family
  • audiobook
Cover of Snow Road Station by Elizabeth Hay

5. Snow Road Station

By: Elizabeth Hay

3.77

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From the Giller Prize-winning author comes a novel, witty and wise, about thwarted ambition, unreal… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Hay's Snow Road Station book and Kyo Maclear's Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets

  • nature
  • family
  • canada
  • audiobook
Cover of Fi: A Memoir of My Son by Alexandra Fuller

6. Fi: A Memoir of My Son

By: Alexandra Fuller

4.01

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

“Fair to say, I was in a ribald state the summer before my fiftieth birthday.” And so begins Alexan… read more

Similar categories in Alexandra Fuller's Fi: A Memoir of My Son book and Kyo Maclear's Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"...time is only as dense as the thoughts that you push through it."

-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son

"You can give your child anything. You can give him his life, even, but not yours. And you can't give him his life back, once lost."

-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son

"The way a pilot sees wind in clouds or a sailor reads currents in water, I look unconsciously for stories to remind me where I am, to remind me that whatever I'm going through, millions have been her…"

-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son

"One of millions of mothers to have lost a child every year, fifteen thousand a day. If none of us suffered, where would we be? Without wise women is where; suffering brings wisdom. So, a gift, this s…"

-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son

Cover of Landbridge: life in fragments by Y-Dang Troeung

7. Landbridge: life in fragments

By: Y-Dang Troeung

4.56

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

The inaugural title from Alchemy by Knopf A searing account by an exquisite writer who came to Can… read more

Similar categories in Y-Dang Troeung's Landbridge: life in fragments book and Kyo Maclear's Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets

  • memoir
  • canada
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Bury the Lead (Quill & Packet Mystery, #1) by Kate   Hilton

8. Bury the Lead (Quill & Packet Mystery, #1)

By: Kate Hilton

3.71

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A big-city journalist joins the staff of a small-town paper in cottage country and finds a communit… read more

Similar categories in Kate Hilton's Bury the Lead (Quill & Packet Mystery, #1) book and Kyo Maclear's Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets

  • canada
Cover of Denison Avenue by Christina Wong

9. Denison Avenue

By: Christina Wong

4.17

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

A moving story told in visual art and fiction about gentrification, aging in place, grief, and vuln… read more

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  • canada
  • audiobook
Cover of Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir by Helen Knott

10. Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir

By: Helen Knott

4.31

Format: 214 pages, Hardcover

When matriarchs begin to disappear, there is a choice to either step into the places they left behi… read more

Similar categories in Helen Knott's Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir book and Kyo Maclear's Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets

  • biography
  • memoir
  • canada
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"What else have I made my responsibility that no one asked me to take on?"

-Helen Knott, Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir

"Mama's arms felt like ceremony on nights when the ghosts of my past experiences wouldn't let me sleep."

-Helen Knott, Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir

"The women in my family are medicine. They are backbones and ribcages and hearts. They are whispers in men's ears. They are the guardians that kept us whole."

-Helen Knott, Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir

"Teetering on the brink of relapse and the edge of insanity. I can't fuck or fight my way out of these feelings, so that's a bitch, but the weather is nice. More cream for your coffee, Edna?"

-Helen Knott, Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir

Cover of The Islands: Stories by Dionne Irving

11. The Islands: Stories

By: Dionne Irving

3.75

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Powerful stories that explore the legacy of colonialism, and issues of race, immigration, sexual di… read more

Similar categories in Dionne Irving's The Islands: Stories book and Kyo Maclear's Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets

  • canada
  • audiobook
Cover of Ordinary Notes by Christina Sharpe

12. Ordinary Notes

By: Christina Sharpe

4.55

Format: 392 pages, Hardcover

A singular achievement, Ordinary Notes explores profound questions about loss and the shapes of Bla… read more

Similar categories in Christina Sharpe's Ordinary Notes book and Kyo Maclear's Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of The Double Life of Benson Yu by Kevin  Chong

13. The Double Life of Benson Yu

By: Kevin Chong

3.54

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

This work of metafiction follows a graphic novelist losing control of his own narrative as he attem… read more

Similar categories in Kevin Chong's The Double Life of Benson Yu book and Kyo Maclear's Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets

  • canada
  • audiobook
Cover of The Museum of Human History by Rebekah Bergman

14. The Museum of Human History

By: Rebekah Bergman

3.50

Format: 244 pages, Paperback

Complex, philosophically searching, and gorgeously rendered, Rebekah Bergman’s The Museum of Human … read more

Similar categories in Rebekah Bergman's The Museum of Human History book and Kyo Maclear's Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets

  • audiobook
Cover of Junie by Chelene Knight

15. Junie

By: Chelene Knight

3.78

Format: 334 pages, Paperback

Longlisted for the 2023 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction A riveting exploration of the complexity w… read more

Similar categories in Chelene Knight's Junie book and Kyo Maclear's Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets

  • canada
  • audiobook
Cover of Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets by Kyo Maclear

16. Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets

By: Kyo Maclear

3.86

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

An unforgettable memoir about a family secret revealed by a DNA test, the lessons learned in its af… read more

Similar categories in Kyo Maclear's Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets book and Kyo Maclear's Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets

  • biography
  • memoir
  • canada
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • gardening
  • nonfiction
  • family
  • nature
  • audiobook
"A mother enters a story. But how does she enter? How does she walk across the pages of a book?"

-Kyo Maclear, Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets

"What is grief, if not the act of persisting and reconstituting oneself? What is its difficulty, if not the pressure to appear, once more, fully formed?"

-Kyo Maclear, Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets

"I could hear her saying: One day I will have a daughter and I will give her an unfinished story and it will be up to her to decide if it is a void or a gift."

-Kyo Maclear, Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets

"Knowledge is a beautiful sideways and sometimes upward spiral, but a tower of appeasement will not feed you. Merit badges will teach compliance with preset paths but will not teach pathfinding."

-Kyo Maclear, Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets

Cover of Omega Farm: A Memoir by Martha McPhee

17. Omega Farm: A Memoir

By: Martha McPhee

3.74

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A long-awaited memoir from an award-winning novelist—a candid, riveting account of her complicated,… read more

Similar categories in Martha McPhee's Omega Farm: A Memoir book and Kyo Maclear's Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Prairie Edge by Conor Kerr

18. Prairie Edge

By: Conor Kerr

4.15

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

The Giller Prize-longlisted author of Avenue of Champions returns with a frenetic, propulsive crime… read more

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  • canada
Cover of Crooked Teeth: A Queer Syrian Refugee Memoir by Danny Ramadan

19. Crooked Teeth: A Queer Syrian Refugee Memoir

By: Danny Ramadan

4.62

Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition

A queer Syrian refugee reckons with a life spent out of place.“Writing this memoir is a betrayal.” … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • canada
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Last Woman: Stories by Carleigh Baker

20. Last Woman: Stories

By: Carleigh Baker

3.94

Format: 207 pages, Kindle Edition

From one of the country’s most celebrated new writers, a blistering collection of short fiction tha… read more

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  • canada
  • audiobook
Cover of Docile: Memoirs of a Not-So-Perfect Asian Girl by Hyeseung Song

21. Docile: Memoirs of a Not-So-Perfect Asian Girl

By: Hyeseung Song

4.13

Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition

For readers of Crying in H Mart and Minor Feelings as well as lovers of the film Minari comes a sea… read more

Similar categories in Hyeseung Song's Docile: Memoirs of a Not-So-Perfect Asian Girl book and Kyo Maclear's Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

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