9 Top family books like Joan Is Okay by Weike Wang

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Similar categories in Kathleen Rooney's Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk book and Weike Wang's Joan Is Okay

Similar categories in Julie Otsuka's The Swimmers book and Weike Wang's Joan Is Okay

• adult fiction
• literary fiction
• family
• fiction
• contemporary
• novels
• adult
• audiobook

"Above ground, many of us are ungainly and awkward, slowing down with the years.... Down below, at the pool, we are restored to old youthful selves. Grey hairs vanish beneath dark blue swim caps. Brow…"

-Julie Otsuka, The Swimmers

"The pool is their sanctuary, their refuge, the one place on earth they can go to escape from their pain, for it is only down below in the waters that their symptoms begin to abate. "The moment I see …"

-Julie Otsuka, The Swimmers

Similar categories in Angie Kim's Happiness Falls book and Weike Wang's Joan Is Okay

• adult fiction
• literary fiction
• family
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

"I lost a World - the other day! Has Anybody found? - Emily Dickinson, 1896"

-Angie Kim, Happiness Falls

Similar categories in Ann Patchett's Tom Lake book and Weike Wang's Joan Is Okay

• adult fiction
• literary fiction
• family
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

"You can’t pretend this [Covid] isn’t happening,"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

"In the summer the pear trees were fine. In the summer, all that is hideous about a pear tree is hidden by leaves and pears. But once those disguises were removed they were nothing but acres of murder…"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

"Hazel, listen to me. I'm going to tell you something important, you need to be brave.' I then explained to the dog how I have told myself for so many years that my career fell apart because I wasn't …"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

"It's as if someone bought all the diamonds at Tiffany's, and crushed them into dust, then spread that dust across the water so that it sifts down evenly, filtering through the shards of light that cu…"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

Similar categories in Elaine Hsieh Chou's Disorientation book and Weike Wang's Joan Is Okay

• adult fiction
• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• asian literature
• novels
• adult
• audiobook

"Never apologize, Ingrid. Especially not when it concerns a man."

-Elaine Hsieh Chou, Disorientation

"She'd be split apart, never certain if the submissive and docile figure in the mirror was a reflection of who she really was, or the ghostly effect of someone telling her her entire life: this is who…"

-Elaine Hsieh Chou, Disorientation

"For once in her life, she wanted to be selfishly and deliciously lazy. To embody the most abhorred word of her generation: unproductive. She, yes she, wanted to be the person who walks away as a car …"

-Elaine Hsieh Chou, Disorientation

"Though it was a little shabby and could do with more frequent dusting, sudents flocked to the café for the worn-in armchairs and couches, free wi-fi and cheap coffee. Ingrid particularly liked the to…"

-Elaine Hsieh Chou, Disorientation

Similar categories in Percival Everett's James book and Weike Wang's Joan Is Okay

• audiobook
• literary fiction
• fiction
• novels

Similar categories in Holly Gramazio's The Husbands book and Weike Wang's Joan Is Okay

• adult fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

Similar categories in Rachel Khong's Real Americans book and Weike Wang's Joan Is Okay

• adult fiction
• literary fiction
• family
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

"She wasn't normal and so I wasn't either. I resented that part the most."

-Rachel Khong, Real Americans

"It was a habit, with my parents: omitting information, not wanting to worry them unnecessarily. Though they’d raised me so American, I could never manage the sorts of American relationships my friend…"

-Rachel Khong, Real Americans

"With each other they spoke loudly: Their voices periodically rose to excited shouts, and they laughed raucously. In English they were milder mannered, polite. My mother had always spoken English to m…"

-Rachel Khong, Real Americans

Similar categories in Laurie Frankel's Family Family book and Weike Wang's Joan Is Okay

• adult fiction
• literary fiction
• family
• fiction
• contemporary
• novels
• adult
• audiobook

"When people thought of mothers, they smelled cookies baking and chocolate melting. But actual mothers got shit for giving their kids too much sugar. When people thought of mothers, they thought soft …"

-Laurie Frankel, Family Family

Similar categories in Kiley Reid's Come and Get It book and Weike Wang's Joan Is Okay

• adult fiction
• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• novels
• adult
• audiobook

"Kennedy hadn't considered it before, that to write something beautiful you just do it regular, and then you pull out a red pen."

-Kiley Reid, Come and Get It

"Washing her sheets was another thing she'd failed to do. She washed her clothes—every weekend—but when it came to the bedsheets, she'd get stressed out or she'd forget. And then there was too much ti…"

-Kiley Reid, Come and Get It

"Okay, sometimes—just being honest— Millie can be . . . a little ghetto." On the word little, Tyler held two fingers an inch apart. "Nooo. Don't say that. Ah love Millie." "But I'm not saying it like …"

-Kiley Reid, Come and Get It

Similar categories in Xóchitl González's Olga Dies Dreaming book and Weike Wang's Joan Is Okay

• adult fiction
• literary fiction
• family
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

"It's a myth about motherhood, Olga felt, that the time in utero imbues mothers with a lifelong understanding of their children. Yes, they know their essences, this she didn't doubt, but mothers are s…"

-Xóchitl González, Olga Dies Dreaming

Similar categories in Ada Calhoun's Also a Poet: Frank O'Hara, My Father, and Me book and Weike Wang's Joan Is Okay

• family
• audiobook

Similar categories in Weike Wang's Joan Is Okay book and Weike Wang's Joan Is Okay

• adult fiction
• literary fiction
• novels
• fiction
• contemporary
• asian literature
• family
• china
• adult
• audiobook

"I wasn't a genius in the end, but a girl could still hope."

-Weike Wang, Joan Is Okay

"A woman who twirls her hair while speaking is a woman never to be taken seriously"

-Weike Wang, Joan Is Okay

"The average Joe in America is expected to move 11.3 times in his life. Who knows about Average Jane."

-Weike Wang, Joan Is Okay

"Proud to be an American, a feeling that I lacked but also a phrase that I didn't think applied to me."

-Weike Wang, Joan Is Okay

Similar categories in Sara Nović's True Biz book and Weike Wang's Joan Is Okay

• adult fiction
• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

"No one is comforted by salad."

-Sara Nović, True Biz

"maybe standing for something wasn't always a choice"

-Sara Nović, True Biz

"Reason is for people who still have something to fear."

-Sara Nović, True Biz

"fewer things were more motivating than a fear of one's own extinction."

-Sara Nović, True Biz

Similar categories in Angie Cruz's How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water book and Weike Wang's Joan Is Okay

• adult fiction
• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• novels
• adult
• audiobook

"She knew I had to cry until I undrown from the inside."

-Angie Cruz, How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water

"If you're lucky, you find a man that you don't fall in the hole with."

-Angie Cruz, How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water

"Lulú talks and talks because she dique knows everything. But when I say something, people listen. This I learned from my father. The less you say, the more the people listen."

-Angie Cruz, How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water

"Talking reminds me that no matter how difficult my life is, I have always found a solution my problems. When I think about this, I am not afraid. We can do this. I can do this."

-Angie Cruz, How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water

Similar categories in Rebecca Makkai's I Have Some Questions for You book and Weike Wang's Joan Is Okay

• adult fiction
• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

Similar categories in Catherine Newman's Sandwich book and Weike Wang's Joan Is Okay

• adult fiction
• literary fiction
• family
• fiction
• contemporary
• novels
• adult
• audiobook

"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

Similar categories in Kevin Wilson's Now Is Not the Time to Panic book and Weike Wang's Joan Is Okay

• adult fiction
• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• novels
• adult
• audiobook

"I wondered if this was a sign that, whatever happened this summer, I'd be the one with a scar."

-Kevin Wilson, Now Is Not the Time to Panic

"To be a teenager, it takes very little to think that someone else might actually know who you are, even as you spend all your time thinking that no one understands you. It's such a lovely feeling."

-Kevin Wilson, Now Is Not the Time to Panic

"I want to be an artist," he told me, like we were both admitting that we weren't human. We didn't understand how normal this was, to be young, to believe that you were destined to make beautiful thin…"

-Kevin Wilson, Now Is Not the Time to Panic

"You want to put up posters in Graceland?" I asked. I thought that if there was one place in the entire world where devotees would kill you for desecrating the sanctity of a holy space, it would be th…"

-Kevin Wilson, Now Is Not the Time to Panic

Similar categories in Aja Gabel's The Ensemble book and Weike Wang's Joan Is Okay

• adult fiction
• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• novels
• adult
• audiobook

"… you misunderstand ‘ease.’ I think whoever said that means joy, not the quality of being easy. And difficult things can bring joy. And joy can bring ease."

-Aja Gabel, The Ensemble

"The story spanned the distance between their past and their future, and suddenly, briefly, they were two versions of themselves. And if they were two versions of themselves, they were also all the ve…"

-Aja Gabel, The Ensemble

"She was sad, and she was angry with herself for being sad. She didn’t like wanting what she hadn’t intended to want as much as she didn’t like being denied what she hadn’t really wanted in the first …"

-Aja Gabel, The Ensemble

Similar categories in Eliza Jane Brazier's Girls and Their Horses book and Weike Wang's Joan Is Okay

• audiobook
• adult
• fiction
• contemporary

Similar categories in Jean Chen Ho's Fiona and Jane book and Weike Wang's Joan Is Okay

• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• asian literature
• adult
• audiobook