8 Best canada books like All We Knew But Couldn't Say by Joanne Vannicola

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All We Knew But Couldn't Say

By: Joanne Vannicola

3.96

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

Joanne Vannicola grew up in a violent home with a physically abusive father and a mother who had no…

If you liked the canada plot in All We Knew But Couldn't Say by Joanne Vannicola , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. Lullabies for Little Criminals

By: Heather O'Neill

4.03

Format: 330 pages, Paperback

A gritty, heart-wrenching novel about bruised innocence on the city's feral streets—the remarkable … read more

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  • canada
"Whenever things were going well, I started to feel vain."

-Heather O'Neill, Lullabies for Little Criminals

"The smallest a family can be is two members, and that was Jules and me."

-Heather O'Neill, Lullabies for Little Criminals

"Women aren't mean the way that men are. They're full of life and they're like God in that way."

-Heather O'Neill, Lullabies for Little Criminals

"Childhood is the most valuable thing that's taken away from you in life, if you think about it."

-Heather O'Neill, Lullabies for Little Criminals

2. That's My Baby: A Novel

By: Frances Itani

3.31

Format: None pages, ebook

A new Deseronto novel from the internationally bestselling author of Telland Deafening At the end o… read more

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3. Secrets of the Tides

By: Hannah Richell

3.67

Format: None pages, Paperback

Every family has its secrets. Some are small, like telling a white lie or snooping through a privat… read more

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4. North of Normal: A Memoir of My Wilderness Childhood, My Unusual Family, and How I Survived Both

By: Cea Sunrise Person

3.62

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Sex, drugs, and . . . bug stew? In the vein of The Glass Castleand Wild,Cea Sunrise Person's compel… read more

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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

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • canada
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
"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. We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America

By: Roxanna Asgarian

4.32

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The shocking, deeply reported story of a murder-suicide that claimed the lives of six children—and … read more

Similar categories in Roxanna Asgarian's We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America book and Joanne Vannicola's All We Knew But Couldn't Say

  • adult
  • nonfiction
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7. Learned by Heart

By: Emma Donoghue

3.51

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Eliza and Lister have never been this wide-awake in their lives, and the Slope, with its curtains d… read more

Similar categories in Emma Donoghue's Learned by Heart book and Joanne Vannicola's All We Knew But Couldn't Say

  • adult
  • queer
  • lgbt
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8. 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

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  • adult
  • canada
"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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9. Lost in the Valley of Death: A Story of Obsession and Danger in the Himalayas

By: Harley Rustad

3.56

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In the vein of Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild, a riveting work of narrative nonfiction centering on t… read more

Similar categories in Harley Rustad's Lost in the Valley of Death: A Story of Obsession and Danger in the Himalayas book and Joanne Vannicola's All We Knew But Couldn't Say

  • nonfiction
  • biography
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10. The Theory of Crows

By: David Alexander Robertson

3.89

Format: 320 pages, ebook

A poignant and evocative novel about the bonds of family and the gifts offered by the land When … read more

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  • family
  • canada
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11. The Woman Inside

By: M.T. Edvardsson

3.54

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A wealthy couple ends up murdered in the nicest part of town in this compulsively readable, page-tu… read more

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  • adult
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12. Dear Sister: A Memoir of Secrets, Survival, and Unbreakable Bonds

By: Michelle Horton

4.52

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A breathtaking memoir about two sisters and a high-profile Nikki Addimando, incarcerated for killi… read more

Similar categories in Michelle Horton's Dear Sister: A Memoir of Secrets, Survival, and Unbreakable Bonds book and Joanne Vannicola's All We Knew But Couldn't Say

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
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13. The Sea Gate

By: Jane Johnson

4.04

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

A broken family, a house of secrets—an entrancing tale of love and courage set during the Second Wo… read more

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  • adult
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14. Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee

By: Casey Cep

3.77

Format: 314 pages, Hardcover

The stunning story of an Alabama serial killer and the true-crime book that Harper Lee worked on ob… read more

Similar categories in Casey Cep's Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee book and Joanne Vannicola's All We Knew But Couldn't Say

  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • biography
"There’s no news in a newsroom"

-Casey Cep, Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee

"Vengeance is as old as violence."

-Casey Cep, Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee

"History isn’t what happens, but what gets written down."

-Casey Cep, Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee

"Monroeville was hard to get to and easy to get stuck in."

-Casey Cep, Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee

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15. 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 Joanne Vannicola's All We Knew But Couldn't Say

  • canada
  • lgbt
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16. Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir

By: Natasha Trethewey

4.25

Format: 213 pages, Hardcover

At age nineteen, Natasha Trethewey had her world turned upside down when her former stepfather shot… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
"Do you know what it means to have a wound that never heals?"

-Natasha Trethewey, Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir

"To survive trauma one must be able to tell a story about it."

-Natasha Trethewey, Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir

"For my father, the myth of Cassandra had been just another way he sought to guide me toward what he thought I needed to know. In some versions, Cassandra's fate is that she is merely misunderstood--n…"

-Natasha Trethewey, Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir

"My whole life people have wondered "what" I am, what race or nationality. ... It's happened again and again: someone looking at me furtively, or calling me "exotic" and asking me "What's your heritag…"

-Natasha Trethewey, Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir

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17. Outsider: An Old Man, a Mountain and the Search for a Hidden Past

By: Brett Popplewell

4.31

Format: 382 pages, Kindle Edition

Into the Wild  meets  Born to Run  meets  The Stranger in the Woods  in a fascinating true story of… read more

Similar categories in Brett Popplewell's Outsider: An Old Man, a Mountain and the Search for a Hidden Past book and Joanne Vannicola's All We Knew But Couldn't Say

  • biography
  • memoir
  • canada
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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18. Same As It Ever Was

By: Claire Lombardo

4.00

Format: 498 pages, Hardcover

Julia Ames, after a youth marked by upheaval and emotional turbulence, has found herself on the pla… read more

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  • adult
  • family
"Parenthood was a persistent cruelty, a constant, simultaneous desire to be together and apart."

-Claire Lombardo, Same As It Ever Was

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19. Things We Lost to the Water

By: Eric Nguyen

3.76

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

When Huong arrives in New Orleans with her two young sons, she is jobless, homeless, and worried ab… read more

Similar categories in Eric Nguyen's Things We Lost to the Water book and Joanne Vannicola's All We Knew But Couldn't Say

  • adult
  • queer
  • lgbt
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20. A Great Country

By: Shilpi Somaya Gowda

3.92

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author, a novel in the tradition of Celeste Ng's Little Fires E… read more

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  • family
  • adult
  • canada
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21. All We Knew But Couldn't Say

By: Joanne Vannicola

3.96

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

Joanne Vannicola grew up in a violent home with a physically abusive father and a mother who had no… read more

Similar categories in Joanne Vannicola's All We Knew But Couldn't Say book and Joanne Vannicola's All We Knew But Couldn't Say

  • biography
  • memoir
  • canada
  • lgbt
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • family
  • abuse
  • adult
  • queer

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3.56

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