To Rest Our Minds & Bodies by Harriet Armstrong
preview of an excellent bildungsroman coming in 2025
Tag: bildungsroman
The Beginning Place by Ursula K. Le Guin
a great brief obscure le guin
The Baby Is Mine by Oyinkan Braithwaite
short and sweet novelette with a lot going for it
Fiebre Tropical by Julián Delgado Lopera
was i too old for this one or just too depressed???
Buster by Alan Burns
a bildungsroman from alan burns (this is alan burns week)
Martha Quest by Doris Lessing (Children of Violence #1)
“the classic coming of age novel… for women”
The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante
yes it is good and i got to read it slightly early and for free
Cygnet by Season Butler
a solid contemporary novel
People I’ve Met From The Internet by Stephen van Dyck
an essential contemporary memoir
Mariana by Monica Dickens
a serviceable though chaste 1940s bildungsroman
Triumph Of The Now 