5 must-read fiction books like The Sunday Tertulia: A Novel by Lori Marie Carlson

Cover of The Sunday Tertulia: A Novel by Lori Marie Carlson

The Sunday Tertulia: A Novel

By: Lori Marie Carlson

3.04

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

“Heartfelt, intelligent. . . imagine Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club crossed with Laura Esquivel’s Like…

If you liked the fiction plot in The Sunday Tertulia: A Novel by Lori Marie Carlson , here is a list of 5 books like this:

1. Beautiful Ruins

By: Jess Walter

3.63

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

The story begins in 1962. On a rocky patch of the sun-drenched Italian coastline, a young innkeeper… read more

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2. Faithful

By: Alice Hoffman

4.12

Format: 206 pages, Hardcover

Growing up on Long Island, Shelby Richmond is an ordinary girl until one night an extraordinary tra… read more

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3. Sandwich

By: Catherine Newman

3.75

Format: 229 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved author of We All Want Impossible Things, a moving, hilarious story of a family sum… read more

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"What does loss look like, in your body? Where is it? It feels like an air bubble stuck in your psyche. It feels like peering down into a deep hole. The vertigo of that. The potential for obliteration…"

-Catherine Newman, Sandwich

"We're just ruined by sex, women---our bodies, our psyches. We're sexually assaulted every five minutes. We're infected with everything. Traumatized by conceiving, by not conceiving. But let's keep at…"

-Catherine Newman, Sandwich

Cover of The Collected Regrets of Clover by Mikki Brammer

4. The Collected Regrets of Clover

By: Mikki Brammer

4.17

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

What’s the point of giving someone a beautiful death if you can’t give yourself a beautiful life? … read more

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  • fiction
"Instead of constantly asking ourselves the question of why we're here, maybe we should be savoring the simpler truth: We are here."

-Mikki Brammer, The Collected Regrets of Clover

"Maybe we just need to appreciate that many aspects of life— and the people we love—will always be a mystery. Because without mystery, there is no magic."

-Mikki Brammer, The Collected Regrets of Clover

"The secret to a beautiful death is to live a beautiful life. Putting your heart out there. Letting it get broken. Taking chances. Making mistakes.... Promise me, kid,...that you'll let yourself live."

-Mikki Brammer, The Collected Regrets of Clover

"Grief plays tricks on you that way - a familiar whiff of cologne or a potential sighting of your person in a crowd, and all the knots you've tied inside yourself to manage the pain of losing them sud…"

-Mikki Brammer, The Collected Regrets of Clover

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5. Dear Edward

By: Ann Napolitano

4.08

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

One summer morning, twelve-year-old Edward Adler, his beloved older brother, his parents, and 183 o… read more

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"He watches his new life walk into his old life."

-Ann Napolitano, Dear Edward

"Take stock of who we are and what we have and then use it for good."

-Ann Napolitano, Dear Edward

"Since death is certain, but the time of death is uncertain, what is the most important thing?" Pema Chodron"

-Ann Napolitano, Dear Edward

"Because there are so many kids, they run schools like factories, or dare I say, jails. You're put into lines and rows and moved when a bell rings. None of this is conducive to deep thinking or creati…"

-Ann Napolitano, Dear Edward

Cover of The Sunday Tertulia: A Novel by Lori Marie Carlson

6. The Sunday Tertulia: A Novel

By: Lori Marie Carlson

3.04

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

“Heartfelt, intelligent. . . imagine Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club crossed with Laura Esquivel’s Like… read more

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  • fiction

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