Dec 17, 2009

Bastard Out of Carolina | What Do I Read Next?

The Beans of Egypt Maine (1986) by Carolyn Chute tells the story of a poor, uneducated family from the backwoods of Maine.
In Ursula Hegi's novel The Salt Dancers (1985), forty-one-year-old Julia, haunted by memories of her abusive father and the mother who abandoned her, returns home to see her father after twenty-three years. Unmarried and pregnant, Julia believes she must come to terms with her past in order to nurture her own child.
One or Two Things I Know for Sure (1995) is Dorothy Allison's memoir of her family and...