Heimat and The Crystal Vase are two of my very favourite memoirs full stop. And the Joe Dunthorne - I’m absolutely the core market for ‘memoir that tells you all about some bit of world history’.
What a great list. Thank you. I thought Heimat was such a brilliant exploration of what happens to post-war generations. (As is Anne Karpf's The War After.) I'd also recommend Sabba Khan's The Roles We Play. I am reading The Wreck at the moment and loving it. Many congratulations.
Great list! Thanks for sharing! I didn’t know many of these.
Big fan of all Jillian Tamaki, and Eleanor Davis. Would definitely put her The Hard Tomorrow as one of my faves. She has such an amazing line and that book takes you so far in such a short span of time.
Recently I’ve really enjoyed The Cliff by Manon Debaye, a really unsettling book about an intense adolescent relationship and The Walking Man by Jiro Taniguchi which is the opposite, a collection of lovely meditative slice of life vignettes.
It would be remiss of me also not to mention Rachel Ang- I Ate the Whole World to Find You. I may be biased (she’s my wife) but it’s also an excellent collection of interconnected short stories that follows a character through a mix of surreal and everyday pieces. It’s dark and funny and plays a lot with the body as space. It’s published by Drawn and Quarterly same as Jillian and Eleanor. You often can’t go wrong with anything they publish!
Heimat and The Crystal Vase are two of my very favourite memoirs full stop. And the Joe Dunthorne - I’m absolutely the core market for ‘memoir that tells you all about some bit of world history’.
Yes! Same!
In fact JUST THIS MORNING I messaged a friend to recommend The Crystal Vase because I’d previously recommended Heimat to her.
Great recommendations! (In the comments too!) I’ll add Julie Delporte’s This Women’s Work and anything by Lauren Redniss.
What a great list. Thank you. I thought Heimat was such a brilliant exploration of what happens to post-war generations. (As is Anne Karpf's The War After.) I'd also recommend Sabba Khan's The Roles We Play. I am reading The Wreck at the moment and loving it. Many congratulations.
Great list! Thanks for sharing! I didn’t know many of these.
Big fan of all Jillian Tamaki, and Eleanor Davis. Would definitely put her The Hard Tomorrow as one of my faves. She has such an amazing line and that book takes you so far in such a short span of time.
Recently I’ve really enjoyed The Cliff by Manon Debaye, a really unsettling book about an intense adolescent relationship and The Walking Man by Jiro Taniguchi which is the opposite, a collection of lovely meditative slice of life vignettes.
It would be remiss of me also not to mention Rachel Ang- I Ate the Whole World to Find You. I may be biased (she’s my wife) but it’s also an excellent collection of interconnected short stories that follows a character through a mix of surreal and everyday pieces. It’s dark and funny and plays a lot with the body as space. It’s published by Drawn and Quarterly same as Jillian and Eleanor. You often can’t go wrong with anything they publish!
Also: everything by Isabel Greenberg