7 Top memoir books like Kiss the Red Stairs: The Holocaust, Once Removed by Marsha Lederman

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Kiss the Red Stairs: The Holocaust, Once Removed

By: Marsha Lederman

4.13

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER For readers of All Things Consoled by Elizabeth Hay and They Left Us Everything…

If you liked the memoir plot in Kiss the Red Stairs: The Holocaust, Once Removed by Marsha Lederman , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. The Postcard

By: Anne Berest

4.37

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the Choix Goncourt Prize, Anne Berest’s The Postcard is a vivid portrait of twentieth-cen… read more

Similar categories in Anne Berest's The Postcard book and Marsha Lederman's Kiss the Red Stairs: The Holocaust, Once Removed

  • audiobook
  • holocaust
  • jewish
"It would be wrong to call them memories; they are moments of life, that man hat es erlebt - one has lived. They are inside me, part of me, branded into my skin, you might say - but they're not memori…"

-Anne Berest, The Postcard

"After the war, women in orthodox Jewish families had made it their mission to have as many children as possible to replenish the population -- and it seemed to me that the same was true for books. Th…"

-Anne Berest, The Postcard

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2. 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 Marsha Lederman's Kiss the Red Stairs: The Holocaust, Once Removed

  • canada
  • audiobook
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3. 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 Marsha Lederman's Kiss the Red Stairs: The Holocaust, Once Removed

  • canada
  • audiobook
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4. The Librarianist

By: Patrick deWitt

3.41

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling and award-winning author Patrick deWitt comes the story of Bob Comet, a man who ha… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory by Sarah Polley

5. Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory

By: Sarah Polley

4.32

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Oscar-nominated screenwriter, director, and actor Sarah Polley's Run Towards the Danger explores me… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Polley's Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory book and Marsha Lederman's Kiss the Red Stairs: The Holocaust, Once Removed

  • biography
  • memoir
  • canada
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"His love was all around the edges, but sometimes it was hard for both of us to see, I think."

-Sarah Polley, Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory

"The past was affecting how I moved through the world, while present life was affecting how the past moved through me."

-Sarah Polley, Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory

"The past and present, I have come to realize, are in constant dialogue, acting upon one another in a kind of reciprocal pressure dance."

-Sarah Polley, Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory

"It can seem perplexing from the outside, this pull that many women experience to make things better for those who have hurt us. The impulse to smooth things over the keep ourselves safe..."

-Sarah Polley, Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory

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6. Haven

By: Emma Donoghue

3.42

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In seventh-century Ireland, a scholar and priest called Artt has a dream telling him to leave the s… read more

Similar categories in Emma Donoghue's Haven book and Marsha Lederman's Kiss the Red Stairs: The Holocaust, Once Removed

  • canada
  • audiobook
"Fog makes an island of every man."

-Emma Donoghue, Haven

"To travel is to turn the pages of the great book of life."

-Emma Donoghue, Haven

"Cormac’s distracted by a slopping sound under the slats. He keeps talking to soothe his nerves. ‘Here’s a saying I’ve heard but don’t understand: Never turn your back on the ocean.’ ‘Even on a calm d…"

-Emma Donoghue, Haven

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7. Shut Up You're Pretty

By: Téa Mutonji

3.57

Format: 135 pages, Paperback

In Téa Mutonji's disarming debut story collection, a woman contemplates her Congolese traditions du… read more

Similar categories in Téa Mutonji's Shut Up You're Pretty book and Marsha Lederman's Kiss the Red Stairs: The Holocaust, Once Removed

  • canada
  • audiobook
"Her sadness was overwhelming. Her sadness was an illusion. She'd pretend to be fine but then wash the same dish for twenty minutes"

-Téa Mutonji, Shut Up You're Pretty

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8. The Future

By: Catherine Leroux

3.32

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

In an alternate history in which the French never surrendered Detroit, children protect their own k… read more

Similar categories in Catherine Leroux's The Future book and Marsha Lederman's Kiss the Red Stairs: The Holocaust, Once Removed

  • canada
  • audiobook
"It'll come back," Ulysses says again. "This place isn't made for disappearing, it's a place for resurrection."

-Catherine Leroux, The Future

"The exact opposite of the huge car factories she imagines as the city's womb, a uterus that makes automobiles the way others make promises, or laws."

-Catherine Leroux, The Future

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9. Hotline

By: Dimitri Nasrallah

4.15

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

A vivid love letter to the 1980s and one woman’s struggle to overcome the challenges of immigration… read more

Similar categories in Dimitri Nasrallah's Hotline book and Marsha Lederman's Kiss the Red Stairs: The Holocaust, Once Removed

  • canadian literature
  • canada
  • audiobook
"Here i am on my own, because of him, maybe free from a life that was turning into a prison, but cast away like a bad-luck omen too. Now I must give myself to others to survive. The world has judged t…"

-Dimitri Nasrallah, Hotline

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10. Fayne: A Novel

By: Ann-Marie MacDonald

4.26

Format: 736 pages, Hardcover

A beloved writer returns with a tale of science, magyk, love and identity. In the late nineteent… read more

Similar categories in Ann-Marie MacDonald's Fayne: A Novel book and Marsha Lederman's Kiss the Red Stairs: The Holocaust, Once Removed

  • canada
  • audiobook
"Byrn speaks and I understand him without effort, his words as clear as spring water. / Ask a favour of the plover, he says. Borrow her eyes. / Then I am flying through the air, and the flying is his …"

-Ann-Marie MacDonald, Fayne: A Novel

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11. This Is How We Love

By: Lisa Moore

3.79

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From the celebrated author of February and Caught comes an exhilarating new novel that asks: What m… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Moore's This Is How We Love book and Marsha Lederman's Kiss the Red Stairs: The Holocaust, Once Removed

  • canadian literature
  • canada
  • audiobook
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12. 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 Marsha Lederman's Kiss the Red Stairs: The Holocaust, Once Removed

  • canadian literature
  • canada
  • audiobook
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13. Closer by Sea

By: Perry Chafe

3.99

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER CBC Books “86 Works of Canadian Fiction to Read in the First Half of 20… read more

Similar categories in Perry Chafe's Closer by Sea book and Marsha Lederman's Kiss the Red Stairs: The Holocaust, Once Removed

  • canada
Cover of Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces by Elamin Abdelmahmoud

14. Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces

By: Elamin Abdelmahmoud

4.21

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

An enlightening and deliciously witty collection of essays on Blackness, faith, pop culture, and th… read more

Similar categories in Elamin Abdelmahmoud's Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces book and Marsha Lederman's Kiss the Red Stairs: The Holocaust, Once Removed

  • biography
  • memoir
  • canada
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"We do things out of fear and we do things out of love and no one tells you what happens when you act from both places at once."

-Elamin Abdelmahmoud, Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces

"I am a student of migration stories. I am pulled toward accounts of lives rearranged by the journey from one place to another."

-Elamin Abdelmahmoud, Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces

"It is a profound, transformative gift to have someone see you as you’d like to be seen, even if you don’t see yourself that way."

-Elamin Abdelmahmoud, Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces

"Love is a practice, a trail you carve out by traveling the same path over and over and over until it becomes familiar, until it lights the way home."

-Elamin Abdelmahmoud, Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces

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15. And Then She Fell

By: Alicia Elliott

3.90

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A mind-bending, razor-sharp look at motherhood and mental health that follows a young Indigenous wo… read more

Similar categories in Alicia Elliott's And Then She Fell book and Marsha Lederman's Kiss the Red Stairs: The Holocaust, Once Removed

  • canada
"Nothing I do is done solely for me. Everything is done to elevate Steve or Dawn, in some way. I'm an afterthought in my own life."

-Alicia Elliott, And Then She Fell

"A part of me wants to cry at this small request, because I know what that longing is like, what it means. I won't be there forever, but I will be there for her. For her sister. For her mother. I'll b…"

-Alicia Elliott, And Then She Fell

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16. The Sleeping Car Porter

By: Suzette Mayr

3.46

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

When a mudslide strands a train, Baxter, a queer Black sleeping car porter, must contend with the p… read more

Similar categories in Suzette Mayr's The Sleeping Car Porter book and Marsha Lederman's Kiss the Red Stairs: The Holocaust, Once Removed

  • canadian literature
  • canada
  • audiobook
"Desperate feelings can swivel into loathing."

-Suzette Mayr, The Sleeping Car Porter

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17. On the Ravine

By: Vincent Lam

4.03

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling, Giller Prize-winning author of Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures comes an exqui… read more

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  • canada
  • audiobook
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18. All the Colour in the World

By: C.S. Richardson

3.74

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

The story of the restorative power of art in one man's life, set against the sweep of the twentieth… read more

Similar categories in C.S. Richardson's All the Colour in the World book and Marsha Lederman's Kiss the Red Stairs: The Holocaust, Once Removed

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

19. 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 Marsha Lederman's Kiss the Red Stairs: The Holocaust, Once Removed

  • canada
Cover of Denison Avenue by Christina Wong

20. 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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  • canadian literature
  • canada
  • audiobook
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21. 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 Marsha Lederman's Kiss the Red Stairs: The Holocaust, Once Removed

  • history
  • 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

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22. The Story of Us

By: Catherine Hernandez

4.19

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

From the author of Canada Reads finalist Scarborough, a stunning new novel about the unbreakable bo… read more

Similar categories in Catherine Hernandez's The Story of Us book and Marsha Lederman's Kiss the Red Stairs: The Holocaust, Once Removed

  • canada
  • audiobook
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23. The Circle

By: Katherena Vermette

4.05

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning and #1 bestselling author of The Break and The Strangers comes a poignant an… read more

Similar categories in Katherena Vermette's The Circle book and Marsha Lederman's Kiss the Red Stairs: The Holocaust, Once Removed

  • canadian literature
  • canada
  • audiobook
Cover of Truth Telling: Seven Conversations about Indigenous Life in Canada by Michelle Good

24. Truth Telling: Seven Conversations about Indigenous Life in Canada

By: Michelle Good

4.44

Format: 215 pages, Hardcover

Abold, provocative collection of essays exploring the historical and contemporary Indigenous experi… read more

Similar categories in Michelle Good's Truth Telling: Seven Conversations about Indigenous Life in Canada book and Marsha Lederman's Kiss the Red Stairs: The Holocaust, Once Removed

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • canada
  • audiobook
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25. Permanent Astonishment

By: Tomson Highway

4.20

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Capricious, big-hearted, joyful: an epic memoir from one of Canada's most ac… read more

Similar categories in Tomson Highway's Permanent Astonishment book and Marsha Lederman's Kiss the Red Stairs: The Holocaust, Once Removed

  • biography
  • memoir
  • canada
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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26. All the Quiet Places

By: Brian Thomas Isaac

3.85

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

Brian Isaac's powerful debut novel All the Quiet Places is the coming-of-age story of Eddie Toma, a… read more

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  • canada
  • audiobook
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27. In the Upper Country

By: Kai Thomas

3.53

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The fates of two unforgettable women--one just beginning a journey of reckoning and self-discovery … read more

Similar categories in Kai Thomas's In the Upper Country book and Marsha Lederman's Kiss the Red Stairs: The Holocaust, Once Removed

  • canada
  • audiobook
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28. Held

By: Anne Michaels

3.66

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A breathtaking and mysterious new novel from the beloved Anne Michaels, internationally bestselling… read more

Similar categories in Anne Michaels's Held book and Marsha Lederman's Kiss the Red Stairs: The Holocaust, Once Removed

  • canadian literature
  • canada
  • audiobook
"Who can say what happens when we are remembered?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"Do we really need our own misery to teach us to be kind?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"We know life is finite. Why should we believe death lasts forever?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"Would he know the moment of his death or would it be like night falling."

-Anne Michaels, Held

Cover of The Survivor: How I Survived Six Concentration Camps and Became a Nazi Hunter by Josef Lewkowicz

29. The Survivor: How I Survived Six Concentration Camps and Became a Nazi Hunter

By: Josef Lewkowicz

4.20

Format: 299 pages, Kindle Edition

WINNER OF THE CANADIAN JEWISH LITERARY AWARD FOR HOLOCAUST LITERATURE An amazing, untold story of … read more

Similar categories in Josef Lewkowicz's The Survivor: How I Survived Six Concentration Camps and Became a Nazi Hunter book and Marsha Lederman's Kiss the Red Stairs: The Holocaust, Once Removed

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
  • audiobook
Cover of Unbroken: My Fight for Survival, Hope, and Justice for Indigenous Women and Girls by Angela Sterritt

30. Unbroken: My Fight for Survival, Hope, and Justice for Indigenous Women and Girls

By: Angela Sterritt

4.51

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

A remarkable work of memoir and investigative journalism focusing on missing and murdered Indigenou… read more

Similar categories in Angela Sterritt's Unbroken: My Fight for Survival, Hope, and Justice for Indigenous Women and Girls book and Marsha Lederman's Kiss the Red Stairs: The Holocaust, Once Removed

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • memoir
  • canada
Cover of Kiss the Red Stairs: The Holocaust, Once Removed by Marsha Lederman

31. Kiss the Red Stairs: The Holocaust, Once Removed

By: Marsha Lederman

4.13

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER For readers of All Things Consoled by Elizabeth Hay and They Left Us Everything… read more

Similar categories in Marsha Lederman's Kiss the Red Stairs: The Holocaust, Once Removed book and Marsha Lederman's Kiss the Red Stairs: The Holocaust, Once Removed

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • canada
  • jewish
  • canadian literature
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
  • audiobook

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