Match BookBuried Women Speak
Mia Faller
2023 · 286 pages · Narrative nonfiction
How it reads
Buried Women Speak is narrative nonfiction (literary oral history, specifically), and its dominant mood is dark. It goes to difficult places and doesn't look away. The pace is moderate — neither a page-turner nor a slow burn — so it holds up whether you read it in long sittings or short ones.
It's set in several locations, in the present day, told in the third person across several viewpoints. Its central concerns are family, loss and grief and identity. In weight it's heavy and literary — denser, more serious, and more demanding of you.
It stands alone, so there's nothing else you need to read first or after. The ending is bittersweet: it resolves, but at a price. At 286 pages it's a quick read. It's a hidden gem — known to relatively few readers.
Pick it up if…
- you're in the mood for something dark
- you want something to chew on
- you like finding books before everyone else
Maybe not if…
- you need something cosy, heartwarming or funny
All 15 dimensions
- Genre
- narrative nonfiction
- Author gender
- female
- Author experience
- debut
- Setting: place
- multiple locations
- Setting: time
- contemporary
- Mood / feeling
- dark
- Pace
- moderate
- Tone / weight
- heavy and literary
- Length
- short
- Narrative style
- third person, several viewpoints
- Publication era
- recent
- Popularity
- hidden gem
- Series vs standalone
- standalone
- Themes
- family, loss and grief, identity
- Ending style
- bittersweet
What these mean: the 15 dimensions of a book.
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