13 Best nonfiction books like My Three Dads: Patriarchy on the Great Plains by Jessa Crispin

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My Three Dads: Patriarchy on the Great Plains

By: Jessa Crispin

3.81

Format: 236 pages, Paperback

Sharp and thought-provoking, this memoir-meets-cultural criticism upends the romanticism of the Gre…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in My Three Dads: Patriarchy on the Great Plains by Jessa Crispin , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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1. The Chronology of Water

By: Lidia Yuknavitch

4.21

Format: 310 pages, Paperback

This is not your mother's memoir. In The Chronology of Water, Lidia Yuknavitch expertly moves the r… read more

Similar categories in Lidia Yuknavitch's The Chronology of Water book and Jessa Crispin's My Three Dads: Patriarchy on the Great Plains

  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"my parents Oedipal fakers"

-Lidia Yuknavitch, The Chronology of Water

"...what is a couple over time but a line..."

-Lidia Yuknavitch, The Chronology of Water

"Make up stories until you find one you can live with."

-Lidia Yuknavitch, The Chronology of Water

"Always we were making. Making love, making trouble, making art."

-Lidia Yuknavitch, The Chronology of Water

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2. Los recuerdos del porvenir

By: Elena Garro

4.33

Format: 292 pages, Paperback

Los recuerdos del porvenir es la historia coral del pueblo de Ixtepec, en alguna llanura cerca de M… read more

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"Estoy y estuve en muchos ojos. Yo sólo soy memoria y la memoria que de mí se tenga."

-Elena Garro, Los recuerdos del porvenir

"Él sabía que el porvenir era un retroceder veloz hacia la muerte y la muerte el estado perfecto, el momento precioso en que el hombre recupera plenamente su otra memoria."

-Elena Garro, Los recuerdos del porvenir

"¡Los abogados...! ¿Y a quién van a juzgar? Esperamos la respuesta consabida: a los traidores de la Patria. ¿Qué traición y qué patria? La Patria en esos días llevaba el nombre doble de Calles-Obregón…"

-Elena Garro, Los recuerdos del porvenir

"Aquí estoy, sentado sobre esta piedra aparente. Sólo mi memoria sabe lo que encierra. La veo y me recuerdo, y como el agua va al agua, así yo, melancólico, vengo a encontrarme en su imagen cubierta p…"

-Elena Garro, Los recuerdos del porvenir

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3. Things I Don't Want to Know

By: Deborah Levy

4.09

Format: 109 pages, Hardcover

'Perhaps when Orwell described sheer egoism as a necessary quality for a writer, he was not thinkin… read more

Similar categories in Deborah Levy's Things I Don't Want to Know book and Jessa Crispin's My Three Dads: Patriarchy on the Great Plains

  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • essays
"Now that we were mothers we were all shadows of our former selves, chased by the women we used to be before we had children."

-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know

"When happiness is happening it feels as if nothing else happened before it, it is a sensation that happens only in the present tense."

-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know

"The fact that lipstick and mascara and eye shadow were called 'Make Up' thrilled me. Everywhere in the world there were made up people and most of them were women."

-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know

"To become a WRITER I had to learn to INTERRUPT, to speak up, to speak a little louder, and then LOUDER, and then to just speak in my own voice which is NOT LOUD AT ALL."

-Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know

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4. Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right

By: Jane Mayer

4.16

Format: 76 pages, ebook

Why is America living in an age of profound economic inequality? Why, despite the desperate need to… read more

Similar categories in Jane Mayer's Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right book and Jessa Crispin's My Three Dads: Patriarchy on the Great Plains

  • nonfiction
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5. Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water

By: Marc Reisner

4.53

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

The story of the American West is the story of a relentless quest for a precious resource: water. I… read more

Similar categories in Marc Reisner's Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water book and Jessa Crispin's My Three Dads: Patriarchy on the Great Plains

  • nonfiction
Cover of Culture of Complaint: The Fraying of America by Robert Hughes

6. Culture of Complaint: The Fraying of America

By: Robert Hughes

4.22

Format: 72 pages, Hardcover

The best-selling author of The Shock of the New, The Fatal Shore, and Barcelonahere delivers a with… read more

Similar categories in Robert Hughes's Culture of Complaint: The Fraying of America book and Jessa Crispin's My Three Dads: Patriarchy on the Great Plains

  • nonfiction
  • essays

7. Humboldt's Gift

By: Saul Bellow

0.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

The novel, for which Bellow won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1976, is a self-described "comic … read more

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8. Chi dice e chi tace

By: Chiara Valerio

3.77

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

Scauri, affacciato sul Tirreno, è l’ultimo paese del Lazio, un posto né bello né brutto, con una su… read more

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9. L'età fragile

By: Donatella Di Pietrantonio

3.73

Format: 192 pages, ebook

Non esiste un'età senza paura. Siamo fragili sempre, da genitori e da figli, quando bisogna ricostr… read more

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10. Quando muori resta a me

By: Zerocalcare

4.57

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Un viaggio con suo padre verso il paesino tra le Dolomiti da cui proviene la famiglia paterna sareb… read more

Similar categories in Zerocalcare's Quando muori resta a me book and Jessa Crispin's My Three Dads: Patriarchy on the Great Plains

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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11. I miei stupidi intenti

By: Bernardo Zannoni

3.78

Format: 252 pages, Paperback

Questa è la lunga vita di una faina, raccontata di suo pugno. Fra gli alberi dei boschi, le colline… read more

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12. Real Estate (Living Autobiography #3)

By: Deborah Levy

4.29

Format: 297 pages, Hardcover

'Three bicycles. Seven ghosts. A crumbling apartment block on the hill. Fame. Tenderness. The statu… read more

Similar categories in Deborah Levy's Real Estate (Living Autobiography #3) book and Jessa Crispin's My Three Dads: Patriarchy on the Great Plains

  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • essays
"É difícil reivindicar fragilidade e força em igual proporção, mas é essa mistura que nos constitui a todos"

-Deborah Levy, Real Estate (Living Autobiography #3)

"A história neste livro era sobre uma mulher que oferece a sua vida a um homem. Não se deve tentar isso em casa, mas é normalmente aí que acontece."

-Deborah Levy, Real Estate (Living Autobiography #3)

"The story in this book was about a woman who has gifted her life to a man. This is not something to be tried at home but it is usually where it happens."

-Deborah Levy, Real Estate (Living Autobiography #3)

"One of these men told me at a book festival that if he did not transgress too many boundaries in his marriage, there would always be a comforting pair of slippers warming for him by the fire...Will t…"

-Deborah Levy, Real Estate (Living Autobiography #3)

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13. Baba

By: Mohamed Maalel

4.32

Format: 225 pages, Kindle Edition

Ahmed nasce in una famiglia in cui le lingue e le ricette si riso patate e cozze e taralli convivo… read more

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14. The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography

By: Deborah Levy

4.18

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

A searching examination of all the dimensions of love, marriage, mourning, and kinship from two-tim… read more

Similar categories in Deborah Levy's The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography book and Jessa Crispin's My Three Dads: Patriarchy on the Great Plains

  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • essays
"Sometimes we want to unbelong as much as we want to belong."

-Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography

"It was a big release from the terror of death to finally acknowledge that it is also always absurd."

-Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography

"I might one day risk falling in love again, but I was not going to lose my heart to the cardiologist."

-Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography

"To unfold any number of ideas through all the dimensions of time is the great adventure of the writing life."

-Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography

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15. La crisis de la narración

By: Byung-Chul Han

3.90

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Las narraciones crean lazos. De ellas nace lo que nos conecta y vincula. De este modo, fundan comun… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • essays
"Nuevas narraciones hacen posible una nueva percepción. La "nueva valoración de todos los valores" de la que hablaba Nietzsche abre una nueva perspectiva al mundo."

-Byung-Chul Han, La crisis de la narración

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16. Il femminismo non è un brand

By: Jennifer Guerra

3.67

Format: 205 pages, Kindle Edition

Negli ultimi dieci anni il femminismo è tornato a essere un fenomeno di massa, colorando di rosa i … read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Guerra's Il femminismo non è un brand book and Jessa Crispin's My Three Dads: Patriarchy on the Great Plains

  • feminism
  • nonfiction
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17. Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us

By: Rachel Aviv

4.12

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In Strangers to Ourselves, a powerful and gripping debut, Rachel Aviv raises fundamental questions … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • essays
"It's startling to realize how narrowly we avoid, or miss, living radically different lives."

-Rachel Aviv, Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us

"For a child, solipsistic by nature, there are limits to the ways that despair can be communicated. Culture shapes the scripts that expressions of distress will follow. In both anorexia and resignatio…"

-Rachel Aviv, Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us

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18. Il vecchio al mare

By: Domenico Starnone

3.36

Format: 128 pages, ebook

«Nel corso della mia vita ho fatto di tutto, proprio di tutto, per smania di racconto». Sulla spiag… read more

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19. My Three Dads: Patriarchy on the Great Plains

By: Jessa Crispin

3.81

Format: 236 pages, Paperback

Sharp and thought-provoking, this memoir-meets-cultural criticism upends the romanticism of the Gre… read more

Similar categories in Jessa Crispin's My Three Dads: Patriarchy on the Great Plains book and Jessa Crispin's My Three Dads: Patriarchy on the Great Plains

  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • essays
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20. Fare femminismo

By: Giulia Siviero

4.32

Format: 191 pages, Kindle Edition

Nella storia dei femminismi, il racconto delle pratiche è spesso rimasto ai margini. Eppure la poli… read more

Similar categories in Giulia Siviero's Fare femminismo book and Jessa Crispin's My Three Dads: Patriarchy on the Great Plains

  • feminism
  • nonfiction
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21. I pipistrelli

By: Inès Cagnati

4.12

Format: 141 pages, Kindle Edition

«So il nome e le proprietà di tutte le erbe che curano il corpo» dice con fierezza la protagonista … read more

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7 Top essays books like My Three Dads: Patriarchy on the Great Plains by Jessa Crispin

Transform Your Habits

Things I Don't Want to Know

Deborah Levy

4.09

Transform Your Habits

Culture of Complaint: The Fraying of America

Robert Hughes

4.22

Transform Your Habits

Real Estate (Living Autobiography #3)

Deborah Levy

4.29

Transform Your Habits

The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography

Deborah Levy

4.18

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5 Top philosophy books like La crisis de la narración by Byung-Chul Han

Transform Your Habits

La piedra de la locura

Benjamín Labatut

3.48

Transform Your Habits

The Maniac

Benjamín Labatut

4.34

Transform Your Habits

La crisis de la narración

Byung-Chul Han

3.90

Transform Your Habits

Métamorphoses (French Edition)

Emanuele Coccia

4.02

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